CVE-2006-3460: libtiff

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-3460 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in libtiff. EPSS estimates a 4.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 03-08-2006
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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).

• 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.