PT-2016-7769
CVE-2016-9535
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Published
2016-11-04
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Updated
2025-12-07
Description by
CVSS 2.0
10
CriticalMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
libtiff version 4.0.6
Description
The issue is related to assertions in
tif predict.h and tif predict.c that can lead to assertion failures in debug mode or buffer overflows in release mode when handling unusual tile sizes, such as YCbCr with subsampling.Recommendations
For libtiff version 4.0.6, consider updating to a newer version that addresses the buffer overflow issue, as the current version has known problems with handling certain tile sizes. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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