Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libtiff-tools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.87% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFTOOLS-1352209
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 Jul 2016

Introduced: 10 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-6223  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL: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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The TIFFReadRawStrip1 and TIFFReadRawTile1 functions in tif_read.c in libtiff before 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via a negative index in a file-content buffer.