CVE-2016-9540Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libtiff

Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 38.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 22
Latest updateMay 14

Description

tools/tiffcp.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write on tiled images with odd tile width versus image width. Reported as MSVR 35103, aka "cpStripToTile heap-buffer-overflow."

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5m38-69cg-mcjw: tools/tiffcp2022-05-14
OSV
CVE-2016-9540: tools/tiffcp2016-11-22

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Apple
CVE-2016-9540: macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Security Update 2017-001 El Capitan, and Security Update 2017-001 Yosemite2017-03-27
Ubuntu
LibTIFF vulnerabilities2017-02-27
Red Hat
libtiff: cpStripToTile heap-buffer-overflow2016-10-08
Debian
CVE-2016-9540: tiff - tools/tiffcp.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write on tiled images with ...2016

💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9448 CVE-2016-9453 CVE-2016-9532 CVE-2016-9533 CVE-2016-9534 CVE-2016-9535 CVE-2016-9536 CVE-2016-9537 CVE-2016-9538 CVE-2016-9539 CVE-2016-9540 mingw-libtiff: various flaws [fedora-all]2016-11-23
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9448 CVE-2016-9453 CVE-2016-9532 CVE-2016-9533 CVE-2016-9534 CVE-2016-9535 CVE-2016-9536 CVE-2016-9537 CVE-2016-9538 CVE-2016-9539 CVE-2016-9540 mingw-libtiff: various flaws [epel-7]2016-11-23
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9540 libtiff: cpStripToTile heap-buffer-overflow2016-11-23
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9448 CVE-2016-9453 CVE-2016-9532 CVE-2016-9533 CVE-2016-9534 CVE-2016-9535 CVE-2016-9536 CVE-2016-9537 CVE-2016-9538 CVE-2016-9539 CVE-2016-9540 libtiff: various flaws [fedora-all]2016-11-23