CVE-2016-3634

high
Published 2016-10-03 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The tagCompare function in tif_dirinfo.c in the thumbnail tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors related to field_tag matching.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed4.0.7-1
debian debianbookwormfixed4.0.6-3
debian debianbullseyefixed4.0.6-3
debian debianforkyfixed4.0.6-3
debian debiansidfixed4.0.6-3
debian debiantrixiefixed4.0.6-3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libtifflibtiff{"endIncluding":"4.0.6"}

References

CWEs

CWE-125

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

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