CVE-2016-10271 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Tiff

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow10 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 38.08%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian TiffLibtiff
Timeline
PublishedMar 24
Latest updateSep 23

Description

tools/tiffcrop.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 1" and libtiff/tif_fax3.c:413:13.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDlibtiff/libtiff4.0.7
▶debiandebian/tiff< tiff 4.0.7-2 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-9pj4-m334-q4m3: tools/tiffcrop↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-10271: tools/tiffcrop↗2017-03-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in tif_fax3.c↗2016-12-03
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Debian
CVE-2016-10271: tiff - tools/tiffcrop.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of s...↗2016
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📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
ShadowBound: Efficient Heap Memory Protection Through Advanced Metadata Management and Customized Compiler Optimization↗2024-09-23
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
mingw-libtiff: various flaws [epel-7]↗2017-04-03
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10271 libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in tif_fax3.c↗2017-04-03
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Bugzilla
mingw-libtiff: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-04-03
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10266 CVE-2016-10267 CVE-2016-10268 CVE-2016-10269 CVE-2016-10270 CVE-2016-10271 CVE-2016-10272 libtiff: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-04-03
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