CVE-2009-2285

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2009-07-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer underflow in the LZWDecodeCompat function in libtiff 3.8.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted TIFF image, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2327.

Affected products

libtiff: 3.8.2

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2065
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jan/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Mar/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35695
http://secunia.com/advisories/35716
http://secunia.com/advisories/35866
http://secunia.com/advisories/35883
http://secunia.com/advisories/35912
http://secunia.com/advisories/36194

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