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CVE-2016-9540

• 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-119

Description

tools/tiffcp.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write on tiled images with odd tile width versus image width. Reported as MSVR 35103, aka "cpStripToTile heap-buffer-overflow."

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/94484
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94747
• https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/5ad9d8016fbb60109302d558f7edb2cb2a3bb8e3
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0225.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94484
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94747
• https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/5ad9d8016fbb60109302d558f7edb2cb2a3bb8e3

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