CVE-2006-2024

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    CVE-2006-2024

    Published: 25 Apr 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060501-01-U.asc, http://secunia.com/advisories/19838, http://secunia.com/advisories/19851, http://secunia.com/advisories/19897, http://secunia.com/advisories/19936, http://secunia.com/advisories/19949, http://secunia.com/advisories/19964, http://secunia.com/advisories/20021, http://secunia.com/advisories/20023, http://secunia.com/advisories/20210, http://secunia.com/advisories/20345, http://secunia.com/advisories/20667, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1054, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:082, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_28.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1563, http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1102, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189933, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103099-1, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201332-1, http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-119.htm, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-17.xml, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0425.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17730, http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26133, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9893, https://usn.ubuntu.com/277-1/

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High