CVE-2016-0740 (GCVE-0-2016-0740)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-13 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 22:30
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the ImagingLibTiffDecode function in libImaging/TiffDecode.c in Pillow before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite memory via a crafted TIFF file.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-02-04 00:00
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