CVE-2005-2452 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-2452

libtiff up to 3.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a...

Vulnerability Description

libtiff 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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

libtiff
Vulnerable Versions:
3.5.5, 3.5.7, 3.6.1

Timeline

Official Publish: August 3rd, 2005
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.