CVE-2006-0405

Published Jan 25, 2006

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Evaluator

Comment
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'
Impact
-
Solution
-

Vendor comments

  • Red HatThis issue did not affect the versions of libtiff as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

Configurations