CVE-2010-2630

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-07-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The TIFFReadDirectory function in LibTIFF 3.9.0 does not properly validate the data types of codec-specific tags that have an out-of-order position in a TIFF file, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2481.

Affected products

libtiff: 3.9.0

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2210
http://secunia.com/advisories/50726
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2552
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554371
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2210
http://secunia.com/advisories/50726
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2552
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554371

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