CVE-2010-2482

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-07-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

LibTIFF 3.9.4 and earlier does not properly handle an invalid td_stripbytecount field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted TIFF file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2443.

Affected products

libtiff: through 3.9.4; 3.4, 3.4-beta18, 3.4-beta24, 3.4-beta28, 3.4-beta29, 3.4-beta31 (+38)

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1996
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127736307002102&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127738540902757&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127797353202873&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/40422
http://secunia.com/advisories/50726
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2552
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/30/22
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597246
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603024
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608010

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