CVE-2006-1983

MediumCVSS 6.4/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via the (1) PredictorVSetField function for TIFF or (2) CFAllocatorAllocate function for GIF, as used in applications that use ImageIO or AppKit. NOTE: the BMP vector has been re-assigned to CVE-2006-2238 because it affects a separate product family.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.4/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Apr 21, 2006
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

Related CVEs from 2006

CVE-2006-19845.0Unspecified vulnerability in the _cg_TIFFSetField function in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier, as used in applications that use ImageIO or AppKiCVE-2006-19855.1Heap-based buffer overflow in BOM BOMArchiveHelper 10.4 (6.3) Build 312, as used in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier, allows user-assisted attackCVE-2006-19867.5Apple Safari 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute code via a large CELLSPACING attribute in a TABCVE-2006-19877.5Apple Safari 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute code via an invalid FRAME tag, possibly due to CVE-2006-19885.0The WebTextRenderer(WebInternal) _CG_drawRun:style:geometry: function in Apple Safari 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of serCVE-2006-19895.1Buffer overflow in the get_database function in the HTTP client in Freshclam in ClamAV 0.80 to 0.88.1 might allow remote web servers to execCVE-2006-19905.0Integer overflow in the wordwrap function in string.c in PHP 4.4.2 and 5.1.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary coCVE-2006-19916.4The substr_compare function in string.c in PHP 5.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory access violatioCVE-2006-19922.6mshtml.dll 6.00.2900.2873, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via nested OCVE-2006-19935.1Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2, when designMode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary codCVE-2006-19947.5PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in dForum 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the DFOCVE-2006-19955.0Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in Scry Gallery 1.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ".." sequences in the
CVE-2006-1983: Medium severity, CVSS 6.4 | Vulnix