CVE-2006-3462
Published Aug 3, 2006
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Heap-based buffer overflow in the NeXT RLE decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors involving decoding large RLE images.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-119
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Vendor comments
- Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
Configurations
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{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "A7E67F34-7951-4223-98CF-1651EEBD4A48",
"versionEndIncluding": "3.8.1"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]