CVE-2015-8870

Publication date 6 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

upstream removed the bmp2tiff utility in 4.0.7 fixed by CVE-2014-81xx-1.patch in Ubuntu

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
tiff	Vendor: https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!libtiff.git/70f9f0cf3d31e314263d286a0ff78b3947810abf/SOURCES!libtiff-CVE-2015-8870.patch Upstream: 0289b27

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.4 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H