What is CVE-2016-9536?

CVE-2016-9536 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Libtiff, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2016-11-22.

How severe is CVE-2016-9536?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Libtiff

CVE-2016-9536

tools/tiff2pdf.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities in heap allocated buffers in t2p_process_jpeg_strip(). Reported as MSVR 35098, aka "t2p_process_jpeg_strip heap-buffer-overflow."

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2016-11-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.031 (87.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.031 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Libtiff — versions 4.0.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0225.html (vendor-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94484 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762 (vendor-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94745 (vdb-entry)
github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/83a4b92815ea04969d494416eaae3d4c6b338e4a (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-9536?: CVE-2016-9536 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Libtiff, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2016-11-22.
How severe is CVE-2016-9536?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.