CVE-2005-2452

Summary

CVECVE-2005-2452
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-08-03 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptionlibtiff up to 3.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a TIFF image header with a zero "YCbCr subsampling" value, which causes a divide-by-zero error in (1) tif_strip.c and (2) tif_tile.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0804.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libtiff Libtiff 3.5.5 All All All
Application Libtiff Libtiff 3.5.7 All All All
Application Libtiff Libtiff 3.6.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
LibTiff Tiff Image Header Divide By Zero Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for libtiff4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.ubuntu.com
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Secunia - Advisories - Mandriva update for libtiff af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
USN-156-1: TIFF vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com
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