CVE-2015-1547

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in LibTIFF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by libtiff5.tif.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
libtiff: through 4.0.6

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/24/16
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/5
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1546.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1547.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3467
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73438
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/24/16
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/5

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