CVE-2006-2656

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: 2006-05-30 · updated 2026-09-23
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the tiffsplit command in libtiff 3.8.2 and earlier might might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: tiffsplit is not setuid. If there is not a common scenario under which tiffsplit is called with attacker-controlled command line arguments, then perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

Affected products

libtiff: through 3.8.2; 3.4, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 (+8)

References

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0008.html
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=114857412916909&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/20501
http://secunia.com/advisories/20520
http://secunia.com/advisories/20766
http://secunia.com/advisories/21002
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-03.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1091
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:095
https://usn.ubuntu.com/289-1/
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-May/msg00127.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0008.html

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