CVE-2010-2631

medium

Published 2010-07-06 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

LibTIFF 3.9.0 ignores tags in certain situations during the first stage of TIFF file processing and does not properly handle this during the second stage, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2481.

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-34279 dos linux verified

Tom Lane · 2010-06-14

LibTIFF 3.9.4 - Unknown Tag Second Pass Processing Remote Denial of Service

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed 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

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libtiff	libtiff	`3.9.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.