VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8668

critical
Published 2016-01-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the PackBitsPreEncode function in tif_packbits.c in bmp2tiff in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a large width field in a BMP image.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected —
6.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 4.0.7-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.0.6-3
sid Fixed 4.0.6-3
forky Fixed 4.0.6-3
bullseye Fixed 4.0.6-3
bookworm Fixed 4.0.6-3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libtifflibtiff{"endIncluding":"4.0.6"}
oracle oraclevm_server3.3
oracle oraclevm_server3.4

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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

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