Denial of Service Vulnerability in LibTiff 4.0.6

CVE-2016-9448 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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