CVE-2016-3634 — Out-of-bounds Read in Libtiff

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.12%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian TiffLibtiff
Timeline
PublishedOct 3
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The tagCompare function in tif_dirinfo.c in the thumbnail tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors related to field_tag matching.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDlibtiff/libtiff4.0.6
▶debiandebian/tiff< tiff 4.0.6-3 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2442-7hjc-vgc3: The tagCompare function in tif_dirinfo↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2016-3634: The tagCompare function in tif_dirinfo↗2016-10-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
libtiff: out-of-bounds read in the tagCompare function↗2016-04-08
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Debian
CVE-2016-3634: tiff - The tagCompare function in tif_dirinfo.c in the thumbnail tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 ...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-3634 libtiff: out-of-bounds read in the tagCompare function↗2016-04-12
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