CVE-2006-0405

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The TIFFFetchShortPair function in tif_dirread.c in libtiff 3.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted TIFF image that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, possibly due to changes in type declarations and/or the TIFFVSetField function.

Find out more about CVE-2006-0405 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of libtiff as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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