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CVE-2005-1544

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-05-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in libTIFF before 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file with a malformed BitsPerSample tag.

Affected products

• libtiff: 3.4, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 (+6)

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91584
• http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=843
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15320
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16872
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18289
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18943
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013944
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-755
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-07.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:042

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