CVE-2016-3634 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Libtiff	Libtiff

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2547
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/08/13
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93335
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3634
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3634

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-10-03T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:03:34.416Z

Reserved: 2016-03-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-3634

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-10-03T16:09:11.587

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-3634

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-04-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-3634 - Bugzilla

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