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CVE-2016-9297

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The TIFFFetchNormalTag function in LibTiff 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted TIFF_SETGET_C16ASCII or TIFF_SETGET_C32_ASCII tag values.

Affected products

• libtiff: 4.0.6

References

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2590
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/12/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/14/7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94419
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2590
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/12/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/14/7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94419
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16

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