CVE-2005-2452: Libtiff

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: version 3.5.5 only; version 3.5.7 only; version 3.6.1 only

Published 2005-08-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.