CVE-2008-2327: Libtiff

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer underflows in the (1) LZWDecode, (2) LZWDecodeCompat, and (3) LZWDecodeVector functions in tif_lzw.c in the LZW decoder in LibTIFF 3.8.2 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF file, related to improper handling of the CODE_CLEAR code.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: up to and including 3.8.2; version 3.4 only; version 3.5.1 only; version 3.5.2 only; version 3.5.3 only; version 3.5.4 only; …

Published 2008-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.