CVE-2016-5652
7.0
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.8%
Description
An exploitable heap-based buffer overflow exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF's TIFF2PDF tool. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in remote code execution. Vulnerability can be triggered via a saved TIFF file delivered by other means.
How to fix CVE-2016-5652
To remediate CVE-2016-5652, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/tiff—upgrade to 4.0.7-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 4.0.6-3 or later
Is CVE-2016-5652 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.0.7-r0
- from 0, < 4.0.6-3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |