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CVE-2010-2481

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2481 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in LibTIFF versions prior to 3.9.4, specifically within the TIFFExtractData macro, affecting the libtiff product. This medium-complexity vulnerability can be triggered remotely by a crafted TIFF file, leading to a denial of service through an application crash. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.4:beta18:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.4:beta24:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.4:beta28:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0295 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: libtiff-0:3.6.1-12.el4_8.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libtiff-0:3.8.2-7.el5_5.5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2481Low

libtiff: TIFFExtractData out-of-bounds read crash

Jun 23, 2010

References

bugzilla.maptools.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/40527
secunia.com / advisories/50726
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/06/30/22
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0519.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1761