CVE-2009-2347: Libtiff

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer overflows in inter-color spaces conversion tools in libtiff 3.8 through 3.8.2, 3.9, and 4.0 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF image with large (1) width and (2) height values, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in the (a) cvt_whole_image function in tiff2rgba and (b) tiffcvt function in rgb2ycbcr.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: version 3.8.0 only; version 3.8.1 only; version 3.8.2 only; version 3.9 only; version 4.0 only

Published 2009-07-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.