CVE-2006-0405

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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

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.

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

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2006-01-25 02:03:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:29:00

Affected Software

LibTIFF 3.8.0

3.8.0

References

http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029

http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034

18587

Vendor Advisory

20345

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200605-17

18172

ADV-2006-0302

Vendor Advisory

libtiff-tiffvsetfield-dos(24275)

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