Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <0:4.0.3-27.el7_3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
2.23% (90th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFDEVEL-1458460
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 8 Oct 2016
Introduced: 8 Oct 2016
CVE-2016-9540 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7
libtiff-devel
to version 0:4.0.3-27.el7_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:0225
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-devel
package and not the libtiff-devel
package as distributed by RHEL
.
See How to fix?
for RHEL:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
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."