CVE-2016-8331
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-10-28 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:20
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF version 4.0.6. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a type confusion vulnerability resulting in remote code execution. This vulnerability can be triggered via a TIFF file delivered to the application using LibTIFF's tag extension functionality.
References
talos-cna@cisco.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93898Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
talos-cna@cisco.comhttp://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0190/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
talos-cna@cisco.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
Impacted products
n/aLibTIFF 4.0.6
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