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CVE-2016-9448
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-476
Description
The TIFFFetchNormalTag function in LibTiff 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) by setting the tags TIFF_SETGET_C16ASCII or TIFF_SETGET_C32_ASCII to values that access 0-byte arrays. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9297.
Affected products
References
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2593
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00017.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/15
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94420
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2593
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00017.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/15
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94420
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
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