CVE-2010-2067

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the TIFFFetchSubjectDistance function in tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF before 3.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long EXIF SubjectDistance field in a TIFF file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04
libtiff: before 3.9.4 — fixed in 3.9.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: libtiff 3.9.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2212
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=874
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127731610612908&w=2
http://osvdb.org/65676
http://secunia.com/advisories/40241
http://secunia.com/advisories/40381
http://secunia.com/advisories/50726
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.596424
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/v3.9.4.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-954-1

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