Security advisory

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  "id": "a6e2a99722708b8a89e236cf5a3800812dd0a3c81674b476a559f56e7ad1a3c9",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9448",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-9448",
    "summary": "The TIFFFetchNormalTag function in LibTiff 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) by setting the tags TIFF_SETGET_C16ASCII or TIFF_SETGET_C32_ASCII to values that access 0-byte arrays. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9297.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-9448",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-9448",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-9448"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/vadz/libtiff",
              "type": "GIT",
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                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "8a37c8e244de3457283b54986d09a8db4d24381c"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:4.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.0.6"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.0.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.0.6",
            "Release-v4-0-6"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9448.json"
          }
        },
        {
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              "repo": "https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff",
              "type": "GIT",
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              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:4.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.0.6"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.0.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.0.6",
            "v4.0.6"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9448.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:05.445661895Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:opensuse",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "13.2"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "13.2"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-9448",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440766,
  "published_at": "2017-01-27T17:59:00.29+00:00"
}