CVE-2015-8870

high

Published 2016-12-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.4

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

82%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.0.3-12`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.0.3-12`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.0.3-12`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.0.3-12`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.0.3-12`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libtiff	libtiff	`{"endIncluding":"4.0.3"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-20 CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.