CVE-2016-9448
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.6%
Description
The TIFFFetchNormalTag function in LibTiff 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) by setting the tags TIFF_SETGET_C16ASCII or TIFF_SETGET_C32_ASCII to values that access 0-byte arrays. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9297.
How to fix CVE-2016-9448
To remediate CVE-2016-9448, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/tiff—upgrade to 4.0.7-r0 or later
Is CVE-2016-9448 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 4.0.7-r0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |