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CVE-2016-9538

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-11-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

tools/tiffcrop.c in libtiff 4.0.6 reads an undefined buffer in readContigStripsIntoBuffer() because of a uint16 integer overflow. Reported as MSVR 35100.

Affected products

• libtiff: 4.0.6

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94484
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94753
• https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/43c0b81a818640429317c80fea1e66771e85024b#diff-c8b4b355f9b5c06d585b23138e1c185f
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94484
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94753
• https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/43c0b81a818640429317c80fea1e66771e85024b#diff-c8b4b355f9b5c06d585b23138e1c185f

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