CVE-2005-2452 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash applications using libtiff by providing a TIFF image with a zero YCbCr subsampling value, causing a divide-by-zero error.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2005-2452?
CVE-2005-2452 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Libtiff Libtiff, published on 3 Aug 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
libtiff up to 3.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a TIFF image header with a zero "YCbCr subsampling" value, which causes a divide-by-zero error in (1) tif_strip.c and (2) tif_tile.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0804.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2452?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Libtiff Libtiff.
How do I fix CVE-2005-2452?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2005-2452 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-2452 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Libtiff Libtiff
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2452, GHSA-3qc8-39jf-7268.