CVE-2016-9538

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9538
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9538.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9538
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-11-22T19:59:06Z
Modified
2025-11-08T14:56:20.926461Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

tools/tiffcrop.c in libtiff 4.0.6 reads an undefined buffer in readContigStripsIntoBuffer() because of a uint16 integer overflow. Reported as MSVR 35100.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/vadz/libtiff

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
43c0b81a818640429317c80fea1e66771e85024b

Affected versions

Other

Pre360
Release-
Release-3-7-0
Release-v3-5-
Release-v3-5-4
Release-v3-5-5
Release-v3-5-7
Release-v3-6-0
Release-v3-6-0beta2
Release-v3-6-1
Release-v3-7-0-alpha
Release-v3-7-0beta
Release-v3-7-0beta2
Release-v3-7-1
Release-v3-7-2
Release-v3-7-3
Release-v3-7-4
Release-v3-8-0
Release-v3-8-1
Release-v3-8-2
Release-v4-0-0
Release-v4-0-0alpha
Release-v4-0-0alpha4
Release-v4-0-0alpha5
Release-v4-0-0alpha6
Release-v4-0-0beta7
Release-v4-0-1
Release-v4-0-2
Release-v4-0-3
Release-v4-0-4
Release-v4-0-4beta
Release-v4-0-5
Release-v4-0-6

Database specific

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Git / gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected