CVE-2006-3459: Libtiff

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 53.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2, as used in Adobe Reader 9.3.0 and other products, allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, including a large tdir_count value in the TIFFFetchShortPair function in tif_dirread.c.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: up to and including 3.8.1; version 3.4 only; version 3.5.1 only; version 3.5.2 only; version 3.5.3 only; version 3.5.4 only; …

Published 2006-08-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.