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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-3462 Detail

Current 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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060801-01-P CVE, Inc., Red Hat
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304063 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lwn.net/Alerts/194228/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/21253 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21274 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21290 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21304 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21319 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21334 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21338 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21346 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21370 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21392 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21501 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21537 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21598 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21632 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22036 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27181 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27222 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27832 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016628 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016671 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.536600 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103160-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201331-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-166.htm CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1137 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-07.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:136 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:137 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_44_libtiff.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.osvdb.org/27726 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0603.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0648.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19282 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-330-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3105 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3486 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4034 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-558 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11301 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-3462
NVD Published Date:
08/02/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.