Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-5875  

There is a heap-based buffer overflow on libtiff/tif_pixarlog.c. The vulnerability allows an attacker to control the size of the allocated heap-buffer while independently controlling the data to be written to the buffer with no restrictions on the size of the written data.

Severity Critical

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow on libtiff/tif_pixarlog.c. The vulnerability allows an attacker to control the size of the allocated heap-buffer while independently controlling the data to be written to the buffer with no restrictions on the size of the written data.

AVG-86 lib32-libtiff 4.0.6-2 4.0.7-1 Critical Fixed

AVG-85 libtiff 4.0.6-2 4.0.7-1 Critical Fixed

25 Nov 2016 ASA-201611-27 AVG-86 lib32-libtiff Critical multiple issues

25 Nov 2016 ASA-201611-26 AVG-85 libtiff Critical multiple issues

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/29/6
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/391e77fcd217e78b2c51342ac3ddb7100ecacdd2