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CVE-2016-5317

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% 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-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the PixarLogDecode function in libtiff.so in the PixarLogDecode function in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier, as used in GNOME nautilus, allows attackers to cause a denial of service attack (crash) via a crafted TIFF file.

Affected products

• libtiff: 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/2016/06/15/10
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/15/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91208
• 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

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