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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2016-5321 json

The DumpModeDecode function in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read and crash) via a craft…

published 2017-01-20 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6272

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The DumpModeDecode function in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read and crash) via a crafted tiff image.

Patch / fix

  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.6-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5321

  • tiff Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6
  • tiff Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5321

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • tiff SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 4.0.7-35.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:3301-1

  • tiff openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.0.7-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10554-1

  • tiff Alpine 3.4, Alpine 3.3, Alpine 3.2 4.0.7-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2016-5321

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libtiff Arch Linux 4.0.7-1
  • lib32-libtiff Arch Linux 4.0.7-1

arch linux advisories AVG-85AVG-86

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-5321 updated cvss 5.0

libtiff: tiffcrop readSeparateTilesIntoBuffer() memory corruption

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libtiff, libtiff-tools
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 compat-libtiff3
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.