CVE-2016-10272

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "WRITE of size 2048" and libtiff/tif_next.c:64:9.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-10272
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-03-24T19:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-03-31T01:59:00
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:4.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/9657bbe3cdce4aaa90e07d50c1c70ae52da0ba6a Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/01/01/libtiff-multiple-heap-based-buffer-overflow/ Patch Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97197
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10272
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10272
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:46:11 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 15:07:34 2017-03-24T19:59Z 2017-03-24T19:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 15:07:34 2017-03-31T01:59:00 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 15:07:34 Modified Vulnerability Status updated