CVE-2016-9538 is a critical integer overflow vulnerability in libtiff versions prior to 4.0.7, specifically within the tools/tiffcrop.c component. This flaw allows an attacker to read an undefined buffer due to a uint16 integer overflow in the readContigStripsIntoBuffer() function. With a CVSS v3 score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a severe risk, enabling unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:4.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.