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CVE-2006-2656

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2006-05-30 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the tiffsplit command in libtiff 3.8.2 and earlier might might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: tiffsplit is not setuid. If there is not a common scenario under which tiffsplit is called with attacker-controlled command line arguments, then perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

Affected Platforms

Libtiff Libtiff

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References