CVE-2015-8870

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-8870
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-12-06 18:59:00 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionInteger 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.0 7.4 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.007410000 probability, percentile 0.730520000 (date 2026-05-10)

Problem Types: CWE-20 | CWE-190 | n/a

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.0[email protected]Primary7.4HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary5.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3.0 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libtiff Libtiff All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
LibTIFF CVE-2015-8870 Integer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.4.tar.gz af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 download.osgeo.org Patch
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
About the CVEs in libtiff 4.0.3 | floyd's af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.floyd.ch Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 378144 Virtuozzo Linux Security Update for libtiff-static (VZLSA-2017:0225)
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