Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting libtiff package, versions [,3.8.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.89% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBTIFF-2317819
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed25 Jan 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jan 2006

CVE-2006-0405  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libtiff to version 3.8.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1