CVE-2006-3463

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CVE-2006-3463

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CVE-2006-3463 at MITRE

Description

The EstimateStripByteCounts function in TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 uses a 16-bit unsigned short when iterating over an unsigned 32-bit value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a large td_nstrips value, which triggers an infinite loop.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 192423 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2006:044, published Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:43:50 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:16:56 2023