VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4244

medium
Published 2013-09-28 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4244

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/ce6841d9e41d621ba23cf18b190ee6a23b2cc833

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996468

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2452

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.0.3-3
debian debianbullseyefixed4.0.3-3
debian debianforkyfixed4.0.3-3
debian debiansidfixed4.0.3-3
debian debiantrixiefixed4.0.3-3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libtifflibtiff{"endIncluding":"4.0.3"}
libtifflibtiff3.4
libtifflibtiff3.5.1
libtifflibtiff3.5.2
libtifflibtiff3.5.3
libtifflibtiff3.5.4
libtifflibtiff3.5.5
libtifflibtiff3.5.6
libtifflibtiff3.5.7
libtifflibtiff3.6.0
libtifflibtiff3.6.1
libtifflibtiff3.7.0
libtifflibtiff3.7.1
libtifflibtiff3.7.2
libtifflibtiff3.7.3
libtifflibtiff3.7.4
libtifflibtiff3.8.0
libtifflibtiff3.8.1
libtifflibtiff3.8.2
libtifflibtiff3.9
libtifflibtiff3.9.0
libtifflibtiff3.9.1
libtifflibtiff3.9.2
libtifflibtiff3.9.2-5.2.1
libtifflibtiff3.9.3
libtifflibtiff3.9.4
libtifflibtiff3.9.5
libtifflibtiff4.0
libtifflibtiff4.0.1
libtifflibtiff4.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.