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CVE-2016-5652

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An exploitable heap-based buffer overflow exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF's TIFF2PDF tool. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in remote code execution. Vulnerability can be triggered via a saved TIFF file delivered by other means.

Affected products

• libtiff: 4.0.6

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0225.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93902
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0187/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0225.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93902
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0187/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16

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