CVE-2016-9297: Libtiff

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TIFFFetchNormalTag function in LibTiff 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted TIFF_SETGET_C16ASCII or TIFF_SETGET_C32_ASCII tag values.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: version 4.0.6 only

Published 2017-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.