CVE-2005-2452

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-08-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

libtiff up to 3.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a TIFF image header with a zero "YCbCr subsampling" value, which causes a divide-by-zero error in (1) tif_strip.c and (2) tif_tile.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0804.

Affected products

libtiff: 3.5.5, 3.5.7, 3.6.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/16266
http://secunia.com/advisories/16486
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:142
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:143
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:144
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14417
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12008
https://usn.ubuntu.com/156-1/
http://secunia.com/advisories/16266
http://secunia.com/advisories/16486
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:142
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:143

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