CVE-2016-5875 - log back

CVE-2016-5875 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity
+ Critical
Remote
+ Remote
Type
+ Arbitrary code execution
Description
+ There is a heap-based buffer overflow on libtiff/tif_pixarlog.c. The vulnerability allows an attacker to control the size of the allocated heap-buffer while independently controlling the data to be written to the buffer with no restrictions on the size of the written data.
References
+ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/29/6
+ https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/391e77fcd217e78b2c51342ac3ddb7100ecacdd2
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