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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2006-0405

Medium
5/10

Summary

The "TIFFFetchShortPair" function in "tif_dirread.c" in libtiff prior to 3.8.1 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.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
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  • PARTIAL

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published