The TIFFFetchNormalTag function in LibTiff 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) by setting the tags TIFF_SETGET_C16ASCII or TIFF_SETGET_C32_ASCII to values that access 0-byte arrays. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9297.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.5
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | alpine-linux-upgrade-tiff | Sep 20, 2017 | Jan 27, 2017 | |
| Arch Linux | arch-linux-upgrade-latest | Jul 11, 2025 | Jan 27, 2017 | |
| Debian | debian-upgrade-tiff | Jan 14, 2017 | Dec 8, 2016 | |
| Gentoo Linux | gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-tiff | Oct 30, 2017 | Jan 27, 2017 | |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libtiffhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libtiff-devel | Feb 22, 2021 | Jan 27, 2017 | |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libtiffhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libtiff-devel | Jan 20, 2021 | Jan 27, 2017 | |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libtiffhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libtiff-devel | Feb 3, 2021 | Jan 27, 2017 | |
| Suse | — | suse-upgrade-libtiff-develsuse-upgrade-libtiff5suse-upgrade-libtiff5-32bitsuse-upgrade-tiff | Dec 9, 2016 | Dec 8, 2016 |
| Ubuntu | ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff-toolsubuntu-upgrade-libtiff5 | Feb 28, 2017 | Dec 8, 2016 |
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