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CVE-2014-8129

libtiff: out-of-bounds read/write with malformed TIFF image in tiff2pdf

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · December 7, 2014

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by failure of tif_next.c to verify that the BitsPerSample value is 2, and the t2p_sample_lab_signed_to_unsigned function in tiff2pdf.c.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw in libtiff.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 3.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read