CVE-2016-3186

Publication date 19 April 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Buffer overflow in the readextension function in gif2tiff.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted GIF file.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

upstream removed the gif2tiff utility in 4.0.7 patch in redhat bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319666#c6 we will not be fixing this issue in precise/esm

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.2 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3606-1
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
26 March 2018