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CVE-2016-3186

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 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: none known
• Published: 2016-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the readextension function in gif2tiff.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted GIF file.

Affected products

• libtiff: 4.0.6
• Opensuse: 13.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00075.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035442
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319503
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00075.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035442
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319503

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