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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-5652

An exploitable heap-based buffer overflow exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF's TIFF2PDF tool. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in remote code execution. Vulnerability can be triggered via a saved TIFF file delivered by other means.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:39 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2016-5652

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Jan 2017, 21:59 UTC

An exploitable heap-based buffer overflow exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF's TIFF2PDF tool. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in remote code execution. Vulnerability can be triggered via a saved TIFF file delivered by other means.

osv:CVE-2016-5652
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5652",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "An exploitable heap-based buffer overflow exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF's TIFF2PDF tool. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in remote code execution. Vulnerability can be triggered via a saved TIFF file delivered by other means.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:31.798784702Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 432884,
  "published_at": "2017-01-06T21:59:01.68+00:00"
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