Upstream information

CVE-2006-0405 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 145757 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 165237 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Micro 6.0
  • libtiff6 >= 4.6.0-3.3
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 GA libtiff6-4.6.0-3.3
SUSE Linux Micro 6.1
  • libtiff6 >= 4.6.0-slfo.1.1_1.3
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 GA libtiff6-4.6.0-slfo.1.1_1.3
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libtiff-devel >= 4.3.0-1.3
  • libtiff-devel-32bit >= 4.3.0-1.3
  • libtiff5 >= 4.3.0-1.3
  • libtiff5-32bit >= 4.3.0-1.3
  • tiff >= 4.3.0-1.3
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11461

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:30:04 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:44 2025