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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-3623): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 3, 2016
Added
Feb 28, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The rgb2ycbcr tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero) by setting the (1) v or (2) h parameter to 0.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff-toolsubuntu-upgrade-libtiff4ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff5

References

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