CVE-2006-3459

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.5/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
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References

Timeline

Published
Aug 3, 2006
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2006-3459: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix