CVE-2010-2483

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-07-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The TIFFRGBAImageGet function in LibTIFF 3.9.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a TIFF file with an invalid combination of SamplesPerPixel and Photometric values.

Affected products

libtiff: 3.9.0

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2216
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127731610612908&w=2
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=127781315415896&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127797353202873&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/40422
http://secunia.com/advisories/40527
http://secunia.com/advisories/50726
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/30/22
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0519.html

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