CVE-2010-2598: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

LibTIFF in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 on x86_64 platforms, as used in tiff2rgba, attempts to process image data even when the required compression functionality is not configured, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF image, related to "downsampled OJPEG input."

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 3 only; version 3.0 only

Published 2010-07-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.