CVE-2016-5314: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the PixarLogDecode function in tif_pixarlog.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by overwriting the vgetparent function pointer with rgb2ycbcr.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Libtiff Libtiff: up to and including 4.0.6
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2018-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.