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CVE-2014-8127

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash)...

6.5 MediumFix available

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

5.71%Up 2.3 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.5

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Record
CVE-2014-8127
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-125
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Record
CVE-2014-8127
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2014-7970 No score

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Record
EUVD-2014-7970
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-5fvh-vxjv-m955 6.5

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash)...

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Record
GHSA-5fvh-vxjv-m955
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-125
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2014-8127 6.5

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2014-8127
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.5

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Record
CVE-2014-8127
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2014-8127 6.5

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8127
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVRHSA-2016:1546 6.3

Red Hat Security Advisory: libtiff security update

Record
RHSA-2016:1546
CVSS 3.0
6.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVRHSA-2016:1547 6.3

Red Hat Security Advisory: libtiff security update

Record
RHSA-2016:1547
CVSS 3.0
6.3 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2014-8127 6.5

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8127
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2015-0112 No score

Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerabilities

The libtiff image decoder library contains several issues that could cause the decoder to crash when reading crafted TIFF images (CVE-2014-8127, CVE-2014-8128, CVE-2014-8129, CVE-2014-8130, CVE-2014-9655, CVE-2015-1547).

Record
MGASA-2015-0112
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2016-0361 No score

Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerability

The TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors involving the ma variable (CVE-2016-3658).

They also fix:

An out-of-bound read of up to 3 bytes in readContigTilesIntoBuffer().

An out-of-bound read on some tiled images.

Segfault when specifying -r without argument (fax2tiff).

Record
MGASA-2016-0361
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10554-1 No score

libtiff-devel-32bit-4.0.7-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the libtiff-devel-32bit-4.0.7-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10554-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:1420-1 No score

Security update for tiff

tiff was updated to fix six security issues found by fuzzing initiatives.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2014-8127: Out-of-bounds write (bnc#914890).
  • CVE-2014-8128: Out-of-bounds write (bnc#914890).
  • CVE-2014-8129: Out-of-bounds write (bnc#914890).
  • CVE-2014-8130: Out-of-bounds write (bnc#914890).
  • CVE-2014-9655: Access of uninitialized memory (bnc#916927).
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:1420-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:1475-1 No score

Security update for tiff

LibTiff was updated to the 4.0.4 stable release fixing various security issues and bugs.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2014-8127: Out-of-bounds write (bnc#914890).
  • CVE-2014-8128: Out-of-bounds write (bnc#914890).
  • CVE-2014-8129: Out-of-bounds write (bnc#914890).
  • CVE-2014-8130: Out-of-bounds write (bnc#914890).
  • CVE-2014-9655: Access of uninitialized memory (bnc#916927).
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:1475-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2016:3301-1 No score

Security update for tiff

The tiff library and tools were updated to version 4.0.7 fixing various bug and security issues.

  • CVE-2014-8127: out-of-bounds read with malformed TIFF image in multiple tools [bnc#914890]
  • CVE-2016-9297: tif_dirread.c read outside buffer in _TIFFPrintField() [bnc#1010161]
  • CVE-2016-3658: Illegal read in TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tiffset / tif_dirwrite.c [bnc#974840]
  • CVE-2016-9273: heap overflow [bnc#1010163]
  • CVE-2016-3622: divide By Zero in the tiff2rgba tool [bnc#974449]
  • CVE-2016-5652: tiff2pdf JPEG Compression Tables Heap Buffer Overflow [bnc#1007280]
  • CVE-2016-9453: out-of-bounds Write memcpy and less bound check in tiff2pdf [bnc#1011107]
  • CVE-2016-5875: heap-based buffer overflow when using the PixarLog compressionformat [bnc#987351]
  • CVE-2016-9448: regression introduced by fixing CVE-2016-9297 [bnc#1011103]
  • CVE-2016-5321: out-of-bounds read in tiffcrop / DumpModeDecode() function [bnc#984813]
  • CVE-2016-5323: Divide-by-zero in _TIFFFax3fillruns() function (null ptr dereference?) [bnc#984815]
Record
SUSE-SU-2016:3301-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-2553-1 No score

tiff vulnerabilities

William Robinet discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2014-8127, CVE-2014-8128, CVE-2014-8129, CVE-2014-8130)

Paris Zoumpouloglou discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed BMP images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted BMP image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9330)

Michal Zalewski discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2014-9655)

Record
USN-2553-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
tiff
Alpine:v3.2
before 4.0.7-r0
4.0.7-r0
tiff
Alpine:v3.3
before 4.0.7-r0
4.0.7-r0
tiff
Alpine:v3.4
before 4.0.7-r0
4.0.7-r0
tiff
Debian:12
before 4.0.6-3
4.0.6-3
tiff
Debian:13
before 4.0.6-3
4.0.6-3
tiff
Debian:14
before 4.0.6-3
4.0.6-3
tiff
Debian:7
before 4.0.2-6+deb7u4, plus listed versions
4.0.2-64.0.2-6+deb7u14.0.2-6+deb7u24.0.2-6+deb7u3
4.0.2-6+deb7u4
libtiff
Mageia:4
before 4.0.4-0.1.mga4
4.0.4-0.1.mga4
libtiff
Mageia:5
before 4.0.6-1.5.mga5
4.0.6-1.5.mga5
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-tools
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-tools
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-tools
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff-tools
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
0:4.0.3-25.el7_2
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
0:3.9.4-18.el6_8
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3
before 3.8.2-141.160.1
3.8.2-141.160.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
before 3.8.2-141.160.1
3.8.2-141.160.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3
before 3.8.2-141.160.1
3.8.2-141.160.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
before 3.8.2-141.160.1
3.8.2-141.160.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
before 3.8.2-141.160.1
3.8.2-141.160.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-TERADATA
before 3.8.2-141.160.1
3.8.2-141.160.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3
before 3.8.2-141.160.1
3.8.2-141.160.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
before 3.8.2-141.160.1
3.8.2-141.160.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
before 3.8.2-141.160.1
3.8.2-141.160.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
before 4.0.4-12.2
4.0.4-12.2
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
before 4.0.4-12.2
4.0.4-12.2
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12
before 4.0.4-12.2
4.0.4-12.2
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
before 4.0.4-12.2
4.0.4-12.2
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
before 4.0.7-35.1
4.0.7-35.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
before 4.0.7-35.1
4.0.7-35.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2
before 4.0.7-35.1
4.0.7-35.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
before 4.0.7-35.1
4.0.7-35.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
before 4.0.7-35.1
4.0.7-35.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
before 4.0.7-35.1
4.0.7-35.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
before 4.0.7-35.1
4.0.7-35.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
before 4.0.7-35.1
4.0.7-35.1
tiff
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
before 4.0.7-35.1
4.0.7-35.1
tiff
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.2, plus listed versions
4.0.2-4ubuntu34.0.3-5ubuntu14.0.3-64.0.3-6ubuntu14.0.3-74.0.3-7ubuntu0.1
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.2
tiff
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 4.0.7-1.1
4.0.7-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2014-8127 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Libtiff, published December 31, 2014. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 5.71%, the 93rd percentile. Fixed in tiff 4.0.7-r0.

References

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