Description
Integer overflow in tools/bmp2tiff.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read), or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory, via crafted width and length values in RLE4 or RLE8 data in a BMP file.
Published: 2016-12-06
Score: 7.4 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-8726 Integer overflow in tools/bmp2tiff.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read), or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory, via crafted width and length values in RLE4 or RLE8 data in a BMP file.
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00868}

epss

{'score': 0.00737}


Subscriptions

Libtiff Libtiff
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:22.080Z

Reserved: 2016-05-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8870

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-06T18:59:00.287

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-8870

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-01-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8870 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses