CVE-2016-9536

critical
Published 2016-11-22 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

tools/tiff2pdf.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities in heap allocated buffers in t2p_process_jpeg_strip(). Reported as MSVR 35098, aka "t2p_process_jpeg_strip heap-buffer-overflow."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9536

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9536.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/83a4b92815ea04969d494416eaae3d4c6b338e4a#diff-5173a9b3b48146e4fd86d7b9b346115e

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-26

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-27

OS impact

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

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libtifflibtiff4.0.6

References

CWEs

CWE-119 CWE-787

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