High
Security advisory
newoffsets handling in ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip in tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2pdf. This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-15209.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-16335
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
newoffsets handling in ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip in tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2pdf. This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-15209.
osv:CVE-2018-16335
Complete source record
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