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title: "CVE-2015-8870\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2015-8870

Publication date 6 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

## Cvss 3 Severity Score

**7.4 · High**

[Score breakdown](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8870?format=md#impact-score)

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## Description

Integer overflow in tools/bmp2tiff.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.4 allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read), or
possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory, via crafted
width and length values in RLE4 or RLE8 data in a BMP file.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8870?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| tiff | 17.04 zesty | Not affected |
| 16.10 yakkety | Not affected |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not affected |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not affected |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not affected |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)
* [Patch details](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8870?format=md#patch-details)

## Notes

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### [mdeslaur](https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur)

upstream removed the bmp2tiff utility in 4.0.7
fixed by CVE-2014-81xx-1.patch in Ubuntu

### Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)

| Package | Patch details |
| --- | --- |
| tiff | * Vendor:   <https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!libtiff.git/70f9f0cf3d31e314263d286a0ff78b3947810abf/SOURCES!libtiff-CVE-2015-8870.patch> * Upstream:   [0289b27](https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/0289b27c5d4dc928471962a6dba478cb69e4f15c) |

## Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:
CVSS v3.0

**Base score**

7.4 · High

* Base metrics

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Attack vector | Network |
  | Attack complexity | High |
  | Privileges required | None |
  | User interaction | None |
  | Scope | Unchanged |
  | Confidentiality impact | High |
  | Integrity impact | None |
  | Availability impact | High |
* Scores

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Base score | 7.4 · High |
  | Exploitability score | - |
  | Impact score | - |

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

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8870)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8870)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2015-8870)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8870)

### Other references

* <http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.4.tar.gz>
* <http://www.floyd.ch/?p=874BMP>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8870>