CVE-2006-0405 (GCVE-0-2006-0405)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-01-25 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:34
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0302 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18172 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20060… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/20345 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/18587 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2006-01-23 00:00
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