{"id":"CVE-2006-2656","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2006-2656","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:38:01.312Z","title":"Stack-based buffer overflow in the tiffsplit command in libtiff 3.8.2 and earlier might might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename.","description":"Stack-based buffer overflow in the tiffsplit command in libtiff 3.8.2 and earlier might might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename.  NOTE: tiffsplit is not setuid.  If there is not a common scenario under which tiffsplit is called with attacker-controlled command line arguments, then perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.","published":"2006-05-30T18:02:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-23T13:10:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["libtiff/libtiff"],"epss":{"score":0.14415,"percentile":0.96599,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2006-05-26","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":1831,"kind":"exploit","title":"tiffsplit (libtiff 3.8.2) - Local Stack Buffer Overflow","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1831","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/linux/local/1831.txt","file":"exploits/linux/local/1831.txt","published":"2006-05-26","added":"2006-05-25","updated":"2016-07-29","author":"nitr0us","type":"local","platform":"linux","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["OSVDB-26030","CVE-2006-2656"],"tags":null,"aliases":"05262006-tiffspl33t.tar.gz","applicationUrl":"http://www.exploit-db.comtiff-3.8.2.tar.gz","screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 14.4%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0008.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=114857412916909&w=2","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/20501","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/20520","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/20766","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/21002","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-03.xml","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1091","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:095","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/289-1/","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-May/msg00127.html","tags":["Patch"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0008.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=114857412916909&w=2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/20501","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/20520","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/20766","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/21002","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-03.xml","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1091","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:095","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/289-1/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-May/msg00127.html","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2656","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}