CVE-2016-5316

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Out-of-bounds read in the PixarLogCleanup function in tif_pixarlog.c in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash the application by sending a crafted TIFF image to the rgb2ycbcr tool.

Affected products

libtiff: through 4.0.6
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Opensuse Project Leap: 42.1

References

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.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/15/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91203
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
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.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/15/3

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