CVE-2010-4665

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-05-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the ReadDirectory function in tiffdump.c in tiffdump in LibTIFF before 3.9.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file containing a directory data structure with many directory entries.

Affected products

libtiff: through 3.9.4; 3.4, 3.4-beta18, 3.4-beta24, 3.4-beta28, 3.4-beta29, 3.4-beta31 (+40)

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2218
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058478.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/12/10
http://secunia.com/advisories/44271
http://secunia.com/advisories/50726
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1416-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2552
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/v3.9.5.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47338
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695887

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