CVE-2016-8331

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF version 4.0.6. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a type confusion vulnerability resulting in remote code execution. This vulnerability can be triggered via a TIFF file delivered to the application using LibTIFF's tag extension functionality.

CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-10-28 20:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-01 01:30:00

Affected Software

LibTIFF 4.0.6

4.0.6

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