CVE-2010-2067

critical

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the TIFFFetchSubjectDistance function in tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF before 3.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long EXIF SubjectDistance field in a TIFF file.

References

Advisories
More

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599576

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1638

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-954-1

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.596424

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/50726

http://secunia.com/advisories/40381

http://secunia.com/advisories/40241

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127731610612908&w=2

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2212

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2010-2086

http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/v3.9.4.html

http://osvdb.org/65676

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=874

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-06-24

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.028