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CVE-2013-4243

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 6.0, 7.0
• libtiff: through 4.0.3; 3.4, 3.4-beta18, 3.4-beta24, 3.4-beta28, 3.4-beta29, 3.4-beta31 (+52)

References

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2451
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54543
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54628
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2744
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62082
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996052
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2451
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54543
• http://secunia.com/advisories/54628

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