VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-8870

CVSS score7.4 HIGH
EPSS probability2.08%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-12-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Primary references