Medium 6.8Published Sep 28, 2013

CVE-2013-4244The LZW decompressor in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary co…

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The LZW decompressor in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF image.

CVSS: 6.8 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-119
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

libtiff libtiff libtiff:libtiff	through 4.0.3; 3.4; 3.4; 3.4; 3.4; 3.4; 3.4; 3.4; and 51 more ranges	NVD

References

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2452	patch
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996468	patch
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/ce6841d9e41d621ba23cf18b190ee6a23b2cc833	patch

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