CVE-2015-8683: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a packed TIFF image.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Libtiff Libtiff: version 4.0.6 only

Published 2016-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.