CVE-2006-3460
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 4.4%EU EUVD
Heap-based buffer overflow in the JPEG decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an encoded JPEG stream that is longer than the scan line size (TiffScanLineSize).
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 4.4% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-3455)
- Published
- August 3, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-3455 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- libtiff / libtiff
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060801-01-P
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc
- http://lwn.net/Alerts/194228/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21274(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21290(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21304(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21319(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21334(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21338(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21346(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21370(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21392(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21501(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21537(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21598(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21632(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22036(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27181(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27222(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27832(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016628
- 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
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201331-1
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-166.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1137(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-07.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:136
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:137
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_44_libtiff.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0603.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0648.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19288
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-330-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3105(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3486(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4034(Vendor Advisory)
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-558
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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