CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-3460

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the JPEG decoder of the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2. A context-dependent attacker can supply a crafted JPEG stream longer than the scan line size (TiffScanLineSize), causing a denial of service and possibly arbitrary code execution.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to remotely crash an application processing TIFF images or to take control of the process, posing a serious threat to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Recommendation

Update libtiff to version 3.8.2 or later. If updating is not possible, restrict processing of untrusted TIFF files.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the JPEG decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an encoded JPEG stream that is longer than the scan line size (TiffScanLineSize).

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS