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CVE-2016-9540

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

tools/tiffcp.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write on tiled images with odd tile width versus image width. Reported as MSVR 35103, aka "cpStripToTile heap-buffer-overflow."

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Libtiff — Libtiff

CWEs

References

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