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CVE-2014-9655

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9655 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in LibTIFF, specifically affecting the putcontig8bitYCbCr21tile and NeXTDecode functions, which can be triggered by a crafted TIFF image. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, potentially leading to uninitialized memory access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 4.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:remotesensing:libtiff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0253 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libtiff-0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libtiff-0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
View patch
debianvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libtiff

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9655Moderate

libtiff: use of uninitialized memory in putcontig8bitYCbCr21tile and NeXTDecode

Dec 29, 2014

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/5
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1546.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1547.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-16
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3273
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3467
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html