CVE-2006-2656

Libtiff < 3.8.2 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the tiffsplit command in libtiff 3.8.2 and earlier might might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: tiffsplit is not setuid. If there is not a common scenario under which tiffsplit is called with attacker-controlled command line arguments, then perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP VERIFIED
by nitr0us · textlocallinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1831

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/20520
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/20766
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-03.xml
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/20501
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1091
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0008.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:095
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21002
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_vuln-dev
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=114857412916909&w=2
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/289-1/

Scores

EPSS 0.1521
EPSS Percentile 94.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (15)
libtiff/libtiff 3.4
libtiff/libtiff 3.5.1
libtiff/libtiff 3.5.2
libtiff/libtiff 3.5.3
libtiff/libtiff 3.5.4
libtiff/libtiff 3.5.5
libtiff/libtiff 3.5.6
libtiff/libtiff 3.5.7
libtiff/libtiff 3.6.0
libtiff/libtiff 3.6.1
... and 5 more
Published May 30, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026