CVE-2006-3461

HIGH 7.5CVE-2006-3461 · Published 03/08/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-3461 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting libtiff (libtiff).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.3%, higher than 92.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libtiff libtiff	`≤ 3.8.1`	No fix yet

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the PixarLog decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

References

patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060801-01-P
patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
lwn.net/Alerts/194228
secunia.com/advisories/21253
secunia.com/advisories/21274
secunia.com/advisories/21290
secunia.com/advisories/21304
secunia.com/advisories/21319
secunia.com/advisories/21334
secunia.com/advisories/21338
secunia.com/advisories/21346
secunia.com/advisories/21370
secunia.com/advisories/21392
secunia.com/advisories/21501
secunia.com/advisories/21537
secunia.com/advisories/21598

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