CVE-2016-5314

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-03-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Buffer overflow in the PixarLogDecode function in tif_pixarlog.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by overwriting the vgetparent function pointer with rgb2ycbcr.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
libtiff: through 4.0.6
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2554
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00087.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00060.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00090.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/15/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/15/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/30/3
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91195
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91245
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346687

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