CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-3462

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the NeXT RLE decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via decoding large RLE images.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to remotely execute code in the context of an application processing malicious TIFF images, potentially leading to system compromise.

Recommendation

Update libtiff to version 3.8.2 or later. Avoid processing untrusted TIFF images until the update is applied.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the NeXT RLE decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors involving decoding large RLE images.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS