CVE-2016-5316

medium

Published 2017-01-20 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Out-of-bounds read in the PixarLogCleanup function in tif_pixarlog.c in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash the application by sending a crafted TIFF image to the rgb2ycbcr tool.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.2	Affected	—
13.1	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`4.0.7-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.0.6-2`
sid	Fixed	`4.0.6-2`
forky	Fixed	`4.0.6-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.0.6-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.0.6-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libtiff	libtiff	`{"endIncluding":"4.0.6"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-125

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

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