VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-0405

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.89%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-01-25
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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