National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0405
Original release date:01/25/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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This issue did not affect the versions of libtiff as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: XF
Name: libtiff-tiffvsetfield-dos(24275)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-0302
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18587
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029
External Source: BID
Name: 18172
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200605-17
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20345