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CVE-2016-10268

Publication date 24 March 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

tools/tiffcp.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer underflow and heap-based buffer under-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 78490" and libtiff/tif_unix.c:115:23.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.8
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
tiff

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3602-1
    • LibTIFF vulnerabilities
    • 20 March 2018

Other references