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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2004-1307

High
7.5/10

Summary

Integer overflow in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c for libtiff 3.6.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file with the STRIPOFFSETS flag and a large number of strips, which causes a zero byte buffer to be allocated and leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

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CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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