CVE-2006-3459
HIGHEPSS 99th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 99% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
- http://lwn.net/Alerts/194228/
- 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://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.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1137
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-07.xml
- 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.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.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-330-1
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html
- 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
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-558
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11497
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