National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2024
Original release date:04/25/2006
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
Solution
This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release:
libTIFF, libTIFF, 3.8.1}
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189933
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-1563
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9893
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1102
External Source: XF
Name: libtiff-tifffetchanyarray-dos(26133)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-277-1
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2006-0024
External Source: BID
Name: 17730
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0425
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:009
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:082
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200605-17
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1054
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-119.htm
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 201332
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 103099
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20667
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20345
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20210
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20023
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20021
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19964
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19949
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19936
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19897
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19851
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19838
External Source: SGI
Name: 20060501-01-U
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9893
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5