CVE-2016-10094

Publication date 31 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Off-by-one error in the t2p_readwrite_pdf_image_tile function in tools/tiff2pdf.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 4.0.6-2ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

reproducer: https://github.com/asarubbo/poc/blob/master/00112-libtiff-heapoverflow-_TIFFmemcpy this will not be fixed in precise/esm

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: c715336

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3212-1
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
27 February 2017

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10094