CVE-2013-4244

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The LZW decompressor in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF image.

Affected products

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=2452
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996468
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/ce6841d9e41d621ba23cf18b190ee6a23b2cc833
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2452
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996468
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/ce6841d9e41d621ba23cf18b190ee6a23b2cc833

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