CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-3464

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 contains an integer overflow when processing large offset values in a TIFF directory. This can allow context-dependent attackers to bypass numeric range checks, trigger assert errors, and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to remote code execution or application crashes when processing malicious TIFF files, posing a serious threat to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Recommendation

Update libtiff to version 3.8.2 or later. If immediate update is not possible, avoid processing untrusted TIFF files.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 allows context-dependent attackers to pass numeric range checks and possibly execute code, and trigger assert errors, via large offset values in a TIFF directory that lead to an integer overflow and other unspecified vectors involving "unchecked arithmetic operations".

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