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CVE-2015-8870

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Integer overflow in tools/bmp2tiff.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read), or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory, via crafted width and length values in RLE4 or RLE8 data in a BMP file.

Affected products

• libtiff: through 4.0.3

References

• http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.4.tar.gz
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0225.html
• http://www.floyd.ch/?p=874BMP
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94717
• http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.4.tar.gz
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0225.html
• http://www.floyd.ch/?p=874BMP
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94717

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