CVE-2010-2481: Libtiff

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TIFFExtractData macro in LibTIFF before 3.9.4 does not properly handle unknown tag types in TIFF directory entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted TIFF file.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: up to and including 3.9.3; 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 2010-07-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.