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CVE-2010-2598

• 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: yes
• Published: 2010-07-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

LibTIFF in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 on x86_64 platforms, as used in tiff2rgba, attempts to process image data even when the required compression functionality is not configured, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF image, related to "downsampled OJPEG input."

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 3, 3-ga, 3.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/40536
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0520.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1761
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583081
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40536
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0520.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1761
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583081

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