CVE-2006-3460

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-08-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the JPEG decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an encoded JPEG stream that is longer than the scan line size (TiffScanLineSize).

Affected products

libtiff: through 3.8.1

References

http://lwn.net/Alerts/194228/
http://secunia.com/advisories/21274
http://secunia.com/advisories/21290
http://secunia.com/advisories/21304
http://secunia.com/advisories/21319
http://secunia.com/advisories/21334
http://secunia.com/advisories/21338
http://secunia.com/advisories/21346
http://secunia.com/advisories/21370
http://secunia.com/advisories/21392

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