vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2015-8683: tiff, tiff3 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 6, 2016
Added
Mar 23, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a packed TIFF image.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-tiffdebian-upgrade-tiff3
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