CVE-2006-3462

Impact

Heap-based buffer overflow in the NeXT RLE decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors involving decoding large RLE images.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304063
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
• http://lwn.net/Alerts/194228/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21274
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21290
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21304
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21319
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21334
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21338
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21346
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21370
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21392
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21501
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21537
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21598
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21632
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22036
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27181
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27222
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27832
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016628
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016671
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.536600
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103160-1