Buffer overflow in Libtiff
CVE-2006-3463
The EstimateStripByteCounts function in TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 uses a 16-bit unsigned short when iterating over an unsigned 32-bit value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a large td_nstrips value, which triggers an infinite loop.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.028 (85.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.028 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3486 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21501 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21537 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21632 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-07.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21338 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-330-1 (vendor-advisory)
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-166.htm
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)