CVE-2006-3459

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    CVE-2006-3459

    Published: 3 Aug 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2, as used in Adobe Reader 9.3.0 and other products, allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, including a large tdir_count value in the TIFFFetchShortPair function in tif_dirread.c.

    References: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060801-01-P, ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc, http://secunia.com/advisories/21253, http://secunia.com/advisories/21274, http://secunia.com/advisories/21290, http://secunia.com/advisories/21304, http://secunia.com/advisories/21319, http://secunia.com/advisories/21334, http://secunia.com/advisories/21338, http://secunia.com/advisories/21346, http://secunia.com/advisories/21370, http://secunia.com/advisories/21392, http://secunia.com/advisories/21501, http://secunia.com/advisories/21537, http://secunia.com/advisories/21598, http://secunia.com/advisories/21632, http://secunia.com/advisories/22036, http://secunia.com/advisories/27181, http://secunia.com/advisories/27222, http://secunia.com/advisories/27832, http://secunia.com/blog/76, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1137, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:136, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:137, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_44_libtiff.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-330-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3105, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3486, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4034, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1137, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html, http://lwn.net/Alerts/194228/, http://securitytracker.com/id?1016628, http://securitytracker.com/id?1016671, http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.536600, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103160-1, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201331-1, http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-166.htm, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-07.xml, http://www.osvdb.org/27723, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0603.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0648.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19283, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-558, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11497

    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