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CVE-2015-7313 json

LibTIFF before 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a crafted tiff file.

published 2017-03-17 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-7242

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

LibTIFF before 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a crafted tiff file.

Patch / fix

  • libtiff libtiff 4.0.7
  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7313

  • libtiff Arch Linux 4.0.7-1
  • lib32-libtiff Arch Linux 4.0.7-1

arch linux advisories AVG-85AVG-86

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-7313 updated cvss 2.1

libtiff: OOM when parsing crafted tiff files

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libtiff
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libtiff, libtiff-tools
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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