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)…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 5.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.7% · top 6.9% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
15
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0450 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 72323 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1547 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-16 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2497 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1032760 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2496 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2486 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2484 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3273 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1546 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2485 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.conostix.com/pub/adv/CVE-2014-8127-LibTIFF-Out-of-bounds_Reads.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150124 Multiple vulnerabilities in LibTIFF and associated tools (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-7970 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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