CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-9448

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to application crashes, impacting the availability of services within the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to a newer version of LibTiff that includes fixes for this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS