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CVE-2016-0740

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% 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

Buffer overflow in the ImagingLibTiffDecode function in libImaging/TiffDecode.c in Pillow before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite memory via a crafted TIFF file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• python-pillow Pillow: through 3.1.0

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3499
• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/c3cb690fed5d4bf0c45576759de55d054916c165/CHANGES.rst
• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/6dcbf5bd96b717c58d7b642949da8d323099928e
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-52
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3499
• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/c3cb690fed5d4bf0c45576759de55d054916c165/CHANGES.rst
• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/6dcbf5bd96b717c58d7b642949da8d323099928e
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-52

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