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CVE-2006-2025

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2025 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in the TIFFFetchData function of libtiff versions prior to 3.8.1, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code through a specially crafted TIFF image. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, an exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB. Despite this, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.5MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27764 · Apr 28, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1052 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: libtiff-0:3.5.7-25.el3.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: kdegraphics-7:3.1.3-3.10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: libtiff-0:3.6.1-10
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-2025Important

security flaw

Mar 3, 2006

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20060501-01-U.asc
bugzilla.remotesensing.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/19838
secunia.com / advisories/19897
secunia.com / advisories/19936
secunia.com / advisories/19949
secunia.com / advisories/19964
secunia.com / advisories/20021
secunia.com / advisories/20023
secunia.com / advisories/20210
secunia.com / advisories/20345
secunia.com / advisories/20667
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/26134
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10593
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-119.htm
usn.ubuntu.com / 277-1
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1054
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-17.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_04_28.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0425.html
securityfocus.com / bid/17732
trustix.org / errata/2006/0024
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1563