CVE-2016-5315 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5315?

CVE-2016-5315 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 7 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The setByteArray function in tif_dir.c in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted tiff image.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5315?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Libtiff Libtiff.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5315?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-5315 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5315 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-5315, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5315, GHSA-7vx7-8m24-fqv4, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5315.