CVE-2006-2656: libtiff

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-2656 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in libtiff. EPSS estimates a 14.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 30-05-2006
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the tiffsplit command in libtiff 3.8.2 and earlier might might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: tiffsplit is not setuid. If there is not a common scenario under which tiffsplit is called with attacker-controlled command line arguments, then perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.