CVE-2013-4243

critical

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996052

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62082

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2744

http://secunia.com/advisories/54628

http://secunia.com/advisories/54543

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2451

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-09-10

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: 0.07842