Upstream information

CVE-2010-2482 at MITRE

Description

LibTIFF 3.9.4 and earlier does not properly handle an invalid td_stripbytecount field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted TIFF file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2443.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

Note from the SUSE Security Team

This issue only affected the libtiff 3.9 series before 3.9.5. It does not affect SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 or older, as they have older libtiff versions.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 612879 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

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