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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3465

Original release date:08/03/2006
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in the custom tag support for the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (instability or crash) and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:7.5 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

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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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-214A
Name: TA06-214A
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1137
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-558
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-4034
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3105
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3101
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-330-1
External Source: BID
Name: 19289
External Source: BID
Name: 19287
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0603
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 27729
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:044
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200608-07
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-166.htm
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2006-230
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2006-230
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016671
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016628
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21537
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21501
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21392
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21370
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21334
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21290
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21274
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21253
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9067
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2006-08-01
External Source: MISC
Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304063
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0648
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:137
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 201331
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 103160
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27832
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22036
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21632
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21598
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21346
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21338
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21319
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21304
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2006-0044
External Source: SGI
Name: 20060901-01-P
External Source: SGI
Name: 20060801-01-P

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9067
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Vulnerable software and versions

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