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Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2016-5102

CVE-2016-5102

MEDIUM5.5

Buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in gif2tiff

Published Feb 6, 2017

Modified 1 years ago

Details

Buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in gif2tiff.c in the gif2tiff tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted gif file.

References

WEBhttp://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2552 WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96049 WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343407 ADVISORYhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16 ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5102

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.0

5.5

Exploitability

Attack Vector

LocalAV:L

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

RequiredUI:R

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

5.5/CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedFeb 6, 2017

ModifiedAug 6, 2024

CVE-2016-5102 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence