CVE-2006-0405 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034 http://secunia.com/advisories/18587 http://secunia.com/advisories/20345 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-17.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18172 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0302 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24275