CVE-2016-10272

Publication date 24 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "WRITE of size 2048" and libtiff/tif_next.c:64:9.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

same fix as CVE-2016-10092

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: 9657bbe

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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