VDB
GHSA-xjff-629w-p8r7
GHSA-xjff-629w-p8r7
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 3, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- May 3, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (2 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (2 in total, the first dated here)
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3462 advisory
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-558 url
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11301 url
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304063 url
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html url
- http://lwn.net/Alerts/194228 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21253 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21274 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21319 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21338 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21392 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21537 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21598 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27181 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27832 url
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.536600 url
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103160-1 url
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201331-1 url
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-166.htm url
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-07.xml url
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