vulnerability
Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2016-9538)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Nov 22, 2016 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 22, 2016
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
It was found that tools/tiffcrop.c in libtiff 4.0.6 reads an undefined buffer in readContigStripsIntoBuffer() because of a uint16 integer overflow.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2016-9538
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-9538
- URL-http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
- URL-http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94484
- URL-http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94753
- URL-http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/v4.0.7.html
- URL-https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/43c0b81a818640429317c80fea1e66771e85024b#diff-c8b4b355f9b5c06d585b23138e1c185f
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-26
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-27
- CWE-190
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