Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting libtiff-tools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-LIBTIFFTOOLS-1968549
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed8 Oct 2016

Introduced: 8 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-9538  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 libtiff-tools.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-tools package and not the libtiff-tools package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

tools/tiffcrop.c in libtiff 4.0.6 reads an undefined buffer in readContigStripsIntoBuffer() because of a uint16 integer overflow. Reported as MSVR 35100.