CVE-2013-4243 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-4243

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff...

Vulnerability Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

libtiff, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 3.4, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5, 3.5.6, 3.5.7, 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.7.0, 3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.3, 3.7.4, 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.9, 3.9.0, 3.9.1, 3.9.2, 3.9.2-5.2.1, 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 6.0, 7.0

Timeline

Official Publish: September 10th, 2013
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.