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    CVE-2014-8127

    LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

    Published:Dec 7, 2014
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Jun 26, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.00411
    CVSS Score:6.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Libtiff
    Product
    Libtiff
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Opensuse
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-540 Overread Buffers

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    CVE-2025-61144 (CVSS 7.3) — libtiff up to v4.7.1 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the readSeparateStripsIntoBuffer function.…
    CVE-2025-61145 (CVSS 5) — libtiff up to v4.7.1 was discovered to contain a double free via the component tools/tiffcrop.c.…
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    References

    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2484
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2485
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2486
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2496
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2497
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00022.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1546.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1547.html
    http://www.conostix.com/pub/adv/CVE-2014-8127-LibTIFF-Out-of-bounds_Reads.txt
    http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3273
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/24/15
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72323
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032760
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2484
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2485
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2486
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2496
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2497
    http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00022.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1546.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1547.html
    http://www.conostix.com/pub/adv/CVE-2014-8127-LibTIFF-Out-of-bounds_Reads.txt
    http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3273
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/24/15
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72323
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032760
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High