CVE-2010-2482

medium
Published 2010-07-06 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

LibTIFF 3.9.4 and earlier does not properly handle an invalid td_stripbytecount field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted TIFF file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2443.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-14573 dos linux verified
Tomas Hoger ยท 2010-08-07

LibTIFF - 'td_stripbytecount' Null Pointer Dereference Remote Denial of Service

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.9.4-1
sid Fixed 3.9.4-1
forky Fixed 3.9.4-1
bullseye Fixed 3.9.4-1
bookworm Fixed 3.9.4-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libtifflibtiff{"endIncluding":"3.9.4"}
libtifflibtiff3.4
libtifflibtiff3.5.1
libtifflibtiff3.5.2
libtifflibtiff3.5.3
libtifflibtiff3.5.4
libtifflibtiff3.5.5
libtifflibtiff3.5.6
libtifflibtiff3.5.7
libtifflibtiff3.6.0
libtifflibtiff3.6.1
libtifflibtiff3.7.0
libtifflibtiff3.7.1
libtifflibtiff3.7.2
libtifflibtiff3.7.3
libtifflibtiff3.7.4
libtifflibtiff3.8.0
libtifflibtiff3.8.1
libtifflibtiff3.8.2
libtifflibtiff3.9.0
libtifflibtiff3.9.1
libtifflibtiff3.9.2
libtifflibtiff3.9.3

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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