CVE-2015-8683

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a packed TIFF image.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
libtiff: 4.0.6

References

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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/25/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/26/1
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/79718
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035508
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2939-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16

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