CVE-2006-2024

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in libtiff before 3.8.1 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a TIFF image that triggers errors in (1) the TIFFFetchAnyArray function in (a) tif_dirread.c; (2) certain "codec cleanup methods" in (b) tif_lzw.c, (c) tif_pixarlog.c, and (d) tif_zip.c; (3) and improper restoration of setfield and getfield methods in cleanup functions within (e) tif_jpeg.c, tif_pixarlog.c, (f) tif_fax3.c, and tif_zip.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-27762 dos linux verified text · 1 KB

Tavis Ormandy · 2006-04-28

LibTiff 3.x - Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17730/info

LibTIFF is affected by multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities.

An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial of service in applications using the affected library.

https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/27762-1.tiff.0

https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/27762-2.tiff.1

https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/27762-3.tiff.100

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.8.1`
sid	Fixed	`3.8.1`
forky	Fixed	`3.8.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.8.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.8.1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-2024

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