CVE-2018-16335

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-09-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

newoffsets handling in ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip in tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2pdf. This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-15209.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
libtiff: 4.0.9

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2809
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2809
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349

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