CVE-2015-8784: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in LibTIFF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by libtiff5.tif.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Libtiff Libtiff: before 4.0.7 (fixed in 4.0.7)

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