CVE-2006-2024

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-04-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in libtiff before 3.8.1 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a TIFF image that triggers errors in (1) the TIFFFetchAnyArray function in (a) tif_dirread.c; (2) certain "codec cleanup methods" in (b) tif_lzw.c, (c) tif_pixarlog.c, and (d) tif_zip.c; (3) and improper restoration of setfield and getfield methods in cleanup functions within (e) tif_jpeg.c, tif_pixarlog.c, (f) tif_fax3.c, and tif_zip.c.

Affected products

libtiff: through 3.8.0; 3.4, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 (+6)

References

http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1102
http://secunia.com/advisories/19838
http://secunia.com/advisories/19851
http://secunia.com/advisories/19897
http://secunia.com/advisories/19936
http://secunia.com/advisories/19949
http://secunia.com/advisories/19964
http://secunia.com/advisories/20021
http://secunia.com/advisories/20023
http://secunia.com/advisories/20210
http://secunia.com/advisories/20345

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