CVE-2006-0405: Libtiff

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TIFFFetchShortPair function in tif_dirread.c in libtiff 3.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted TIFF image that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, possibly due to changes in type declarations and/or the TIFFVSetField function.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: version 3.8.0 only

Published 2006-01-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.