--- title: "CVE-2006-2024\n | Ubuntu" description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-2024?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # CVE-2006-2024 Publication date 25 April 2006 Last updated 17 July 2025 --- Ubuntu priority **Medium** [Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority ) Toggle side navigation ## Description Multiple vulnerabilities in libtiff before 3.8.1 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a TIFF image that triggers errors in (1) the TIFFFetchAnyArray function in (a) tif\_dirread.c; (2) certain "codec cleanup methods" in (b) tif\_lzw.c, (c) tif\_pixarlog.c, and (d) tif\_zip.c; (3) and improper restoration of setfield and getfield methods in cleanup functions within (e) tif\_jpeg.c, tif\_pixarlog.c, (f) tif\_fax3.c, and tif\_zip.c. ## Status Show unmaintained releases | Package | Ubuntu Release | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | tiff | 7.04 feisty | Not affected | | 6.10 edgy | Not affected | | 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 3.7.4-1ubuntu3.2 | --- * [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) * [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses) ## References * [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2024) * [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2024) * [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2006-2024) * [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-2024) ### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) + [USN-277-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-277-1) + TIFF library vulnerabilities + 4 May 2006 ### Other references *