CVE-2006-2024

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2006-03-03
Bugzilla:
1618083: CVE-2006-2024 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple vulnerabilities in libtiff before 3.8.1 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a TIFF image that triggers errors in (1) the TIFFFetchAnyArray function in (a) tif_dirread.c; (2) certain "codec cleanup methods" in (b) tif_lzw.c, (c) tif_pixarlog.c, and (d) tif_zip.c; (3) and improper restoration of setfield and getfield methods in cleanup functions within (e) tif_jpeg.c, tif_pixarlog.c, (f) tif_fax3.c, and tif_zip.c.

Find out more about CVE-2006-2024 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (libtiff) RHSA-2006:0425 2006-05-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (libtiff) RHSA-2006:0425 2006-05-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (kdegraphics) RHSA-2006:0648 2006-08-28
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (libtiff) RHSA-2006:0425 2006-05-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (kdegraphics) RHSA-2006:0648 2006-08-28

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