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Debian: CVE-2016-9535: tiff, tiff3 -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 22, 2016
Added
Jan 14, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

tif_predict.h and tif_predict.c in libtiff 4.0.6 have assertions that can lead to assertion failures in debug mode, or buffer overflows in release mode, when dealing with unusual tile size like YCbCr with subsampling. Reported as MSVR 35105, aka "Predictor heap-buffer-overflow."

Solutions

debian-upgrade-tiffdebian-upgrade-tiff3
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