CVE-2010-2596

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-07-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The OJPEGPostDecode function in tif_ojpeg.c in LibTIFF 3.9.0 and 3.9.2, as used in tiff2ps, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a crafted TIFF image, related to "downsampled OJPEG input."

Affected products

libtiff: 3.9.0, 3.9.2

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2209
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127731610612908&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/40422
http://secunia.com/advisories/50726
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583081
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2209
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127731610612908&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/40422
http://secunia.com/advisories/50726
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583081

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