CVE-2006-0405

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2006-0405 · Published 25/01/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-0405 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting libtiff (libtiff).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.9%, higher than 86.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libtiff libtiff	`= 3.8.0`	No fix yet

Description

The TIFFFetchShortPair function in tif_dirread.c in libtiff 3.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted TIFF image that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, possibly due to changes in type declarations and/or the TIFFVSetField function.

References

bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com/advisories/18587 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/20345 · Vendor Advisory
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-17.xml
securityfocus.com/bid/18172
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0302 · Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24275

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

libtiff

= 3.8.0

No fix yet

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