Unscored severity · published Aug 3, 2006
CVE-2006-3462
Heap-based buffer overflow in the NeXT RLE decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors…
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CVSS
5.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the NeXT RLE decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors involving decoding large RLE images.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.3% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Libtiff · Libtiff
through 3.8.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3462
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3462
docs.info.apple.com
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304063
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
lwn.net
http://lwn.net/Alerts/194228/
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
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