CVE-2010-2598
LibTIFF in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 on x86_64 platforms, as used in tiff2rgba, attempts to process image data even when the required compression functionality is not configured, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF image, related to "downsampled OJPEG input."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 2.0% (80th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2602)
- Published
- July 2, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2602 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
Certified products that may be affected
2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, Version 3 Update 2 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0259-2004 - archived
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Version 3 Update 2 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0257-2004 - archived
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40536(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0520.html(Not Applicable)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1761(Broken Link)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583081(Exploit)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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