CVE-2016-6223

libtiff: Out-of-bounds read on memory-mapped files in TIFFReadRawStrip1() and TIFFReadRawTile1()

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 10, 2016

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

The TIFFReadRawStrip1 and TIFFReadRawTile1 functions in tif_read.c in libtiff before 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via a negative index in a file-content buffer.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read