CVE-2010-2597

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% 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 TIFFVStripSize function in tif_strip.c in LibTIFF 3.9.0 and 3.9.2 makes incorrect calls to the TIFFGetField function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted TIFF image, related to "downsampled OJPEG input" and possibly related to a compiler optimization that triggers a divide-by-zero error.

Affected products

libtiff: 3.9.0, 3.9.2

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2215
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.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2552
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0519.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1761
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593067
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583081
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603703
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2215

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