vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2939-1 (CVE-2015-8683): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 23, 2016
Added
Mar 28, 2016
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed
images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Solution(s)

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