CVE-2008-2327

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer underflows in the (1) LZWDecode, (2) LZWDecodeCompat, and (3) LZWDecodeVector functions in tif_lzw.c in the LZW decoder in LibTIFF 3.8.2 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF file, related to improper handling of the CODE_CLEAR code.

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://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234080
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Nov/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Nov/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31610
http://secunia.com/advisories/31623
http://secunia.com/advisories/31668
http://secunia.com/advisories/31670
http://secunia.com/advisories/31698
http://secunia.com/advisories/31838
http://secunia.com/advisories/31882

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