Medium 6.5Published Jun 26, 2017

CVE-2014-8127LibTIFF 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,…

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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.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.0, NVD)CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-125
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

libtiff libtiff libtiff:libtiff	4.0.3	NVD
opensuse opensuse opensuse:opensuse	13.1; 13.2	NVD

References

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2484	issue-tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2485	issue-tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2486	issue-tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2496	issue-tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2497	issue-tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500	issue-tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00022.html	third-party-advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1546.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1547.html
http://www.conostix.com/pub/adv/CVE-2014-8127-LibTIFF-Out-of-bounds_Reads.txt	third-party-advisory
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