Medium
Security advisory
Buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in gif2tiff.c in the gif2tiff tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted gif file.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-5102
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in gif2tiff.c in the gif2tiff tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted gif file.
osv:CVE-2016-5102
Complete source record
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