CVE-2018-16335: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

newoffsets handling in ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip in tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2pdf. This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-15209.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
  • Libtiff Libtiff: version 4.0.9 only

Published 2018-09-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.