CVE-2015-1547

Publication date 13 April 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in LibTIFF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by libtiff5.tif.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Fixed 4.0.3-12.3ubuntu1
	14.10 utopic	Fixed 4.0.3-10ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.7
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.15

Notes

mdeslaur

Fix included in CVE-2014-9655-2

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H