Critical
Security advisory
tools/tiffcp.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write on tiled images with odd tile width versus image width. Reported as MSVR 35103, aka "cpStripToTile heap-buffer-overflow."
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9540
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 09:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
tools/tiffcp.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has an out-of-bounds write on tiled images with odd tile width versus image width. Reported as MSVR 35103, aka "cpStripToTile heap-buffer-overflow."
osv:CVE-2016-9540
Complete source record
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