What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8331

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-10-28 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF version 4.0.6. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a type confusion vulnerability resulting in remote code execution. This vulnerability can be triggered via a TIFF file delivered to the application using LibTIFF's tag extension functionality.

Affected products

• libtiff: 4.0.6

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93898
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0190/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93898
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0190/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16

Get alerted when CVE-2016-8331 or the next vulnerability affects your stack