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CVE-2016-10268

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-191

Description

tools/tiffcp.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer underflow and heap-based buffer under-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 78490" and libtiff/tif_unix.c:115:23.

Affected products

• libtiff: 4.0.7

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97202
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/01/01/libtiff-multiple-heap-based-buffer-overflow/
• https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/5397a417e61258c69209904e652a1f409ec3b9df
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97202
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/01/01/libtiff-multiple-heap-based-buffer-overflow/
• https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/5397a417e61258c69209904e652a1f409ec3b9df
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/

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