CVE-2010-2598 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in LibTIFF via crafted TIFF images due to improper handling of unconfigured compression functionality.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2010-2598?
CVE-2010-2598 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 1 Jul 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
LibTIFF in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 on x86_64 platforms, as used in tiff2rgba, attempts to process image data even when the required compression functionality is not configured, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF image, related to "downsampled OJPEG input."
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2598?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Redhat Enterprise Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2010-2598?
Apply the vendor's patch.
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-2010-2598 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2598 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2598, GHSA-x8mf-r5p2-qm59.