CVE-2016-10270

Publication date 24 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 8" and libtiff/tif_read.c:523:22.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

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


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