High 7.4Published Dec 6, 2016

CVE-2015-8870Integer 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…

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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.

CVSS: 7.4 HIGH (v3.0, NVD)CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-20, CWE-190
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	through 4.0.3	NVD

References

References

http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.4.tar.gz	patch
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0225.html
http://www.floyd.ch/?p=874BMP	third-party-advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94717

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