Detections
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CVE-2016-10270

high

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 8" and libtiff/tif_read.c:523:22.

References

https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/9a72a69e035ee70ff5c41541c8c61cd97990d018

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/01/01/libtiff-multiple-heap-based-buffer-overflow/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97200

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3844

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-24

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00358