CVE-2016-9535

critical

Published 2016-11-22 · Modified 2026-05-29

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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

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

tif_predict.h and tif_predict.c in libtiff 4.0.6 have assertions that can lead to assertion failures in debug mode, or buffer overflows in release mode, when dealing with unusual tile size like YCbCr with subsampling. Reported as MSVR 35105, aka "Predictor heap-buffer-overflow."

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

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`4.0.7-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.0.7-1`
sid	Fixed	`4.0.7-1`
forky	Fixed	`4.0.7-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.0.7-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.0.7-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libtiff	libtiff	`4.0.6`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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