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CVE-2015-1547

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1547 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the NeXTDecode function of LibTIFF, affecting various Debian and LibTIFF products. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) can be triggered remotely with low complexity by an attacker providing a crafted TIFF image, leading to uninitialized memory access and system unavailability. Despite its potential impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

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:libtiff: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
3.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0334 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 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-2015-1547Moderate

libtiff: use of uninitialized memory in NeXTDecode

Dec 29, 2014

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/01/24/16
Exploit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/5
Exploit
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/2016/dsa-3467
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
securityfocus.com / bid/73438