Vulnerability in Libtiff

CVE-2006-0405

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.

EPSS: 0.029 (85.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Libtiff — versions 3.8.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

References