Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 25, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-0405
CVE-2006-0405
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.
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References
8- secunia.com/advisories/18587nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/20345nvdVendor Advisory
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0302nvdVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cginvd
- bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cginvd
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-17.xmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/18172nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24275nvd
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