CVE-2016-10095

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _TIFFVGetField function in tif_dir.c in LibTIFF 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4beta, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7 and 4.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted TIFF file.

Affected products

libtiff: 4.0.7

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2625
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3903
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/01/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/01/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95178
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/01/01/libtiff-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-_tiffvgetfield-tif_dir-c/
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2625
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3903
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/01/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/01/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95178
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/01/01/libtiff-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-_tiffvgetfield-tif_dir-c/

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