vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-5314: libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 9, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

Buffer overflow in the PixarLogDecode function in tif_pixarlog.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by overwriting the vgetparent function pointer with rgb2ycbcr.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-tiff
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