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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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1137-1 New tiff packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-3458 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-330-1 tiff vulnerabilities
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ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060801-01-P cve-icon cve-icon
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://lwn.net/Alerts/194228/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21274 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21290 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21304 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21319 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21334 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21338 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21346 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21370 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21392 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21501 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21537 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21598 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21632 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22036 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27181 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27222 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27832 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016628 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.536600 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103160-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201331-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-166.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1137 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-07.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:136 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:137 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_44_libtiff.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0603.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0648.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19284 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-330-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3105 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3486 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4034 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-558 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3463 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10639 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3463 cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T18:30:33.993Z

Reserved: 2006-07-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-3463

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-08-03T01:04:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2006-3463

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-3463 - Bugzilla

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