CVE-2006-0405

The TIFFFetchShortPair function in tif_dirread.c in libtiff 3.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted TIFF image that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, possibly due to changes in type declarations and/or the TIFFVSetField function.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2006-01-25

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Libtiff (Libtiff)

References

• http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029
• http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18587
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20345
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-17.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18172
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0302
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24275