CVE-2006-0405

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-01-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

libtiff: 3.8.0

References

http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034
http://secunia.com/advisories/18587
http://secunia.com/advisories/20345
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-17.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18172
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0302
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24275
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034
http://secunia.com/advisories/18587
http://secunia.com/advisories/20345

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