CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-3463

7.8 HIGH Published 2006-08-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-08-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The EstimateStripByteCounts function in TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 uses a 16-bit unsigned short when iterating over an unsigned 32-bit value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a large td_nstrips value, which triggers an infinite loop.

Affected configurations

• libtiff libtiff (<= 3.8.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References