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CVE-2016-3634

libtiff: out-of-bounds read in the tagCompare function

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · April 8, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The tagCompare function in tif_dirinfo.c in the thumbnail tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors related to field_tag matching.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of libtiff as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7. This issue did not affect the versions of compat-libtiff3 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read