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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-6223): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 23, 2017
Added
Feb 28, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The TIFFReadRawStrip1 and TIFFReadRawTile1 functions in tif_read.c in libtiff before 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via a negative index in a file-content buffer.

Solutions

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