PT-2015-3229

CVE-2015-8784

Published

2015-12-31

Updated

2019-12-31

Description by

CVSS 3.1

6.5

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions LibTIFF (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the NeXTDecode function in the tif next.c file of LibTIFF, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to an out-of-bounds write. This can be achieved by using a crafted TIFF image. The problem stems from a buffer overflow in the NeXTDecode function.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

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