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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2004-0803 json

Multiple vulnerabilities in the RLE (run length encoding) decoders for libtiff 3.6.1 and earlier, related to buffer overflows and integer o…

published 2004-10-26 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0801

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.3%
EPSS 8.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities in the RLE (run length encoding) decoders for libtiff 3.6.1 and earlier, related to buffer overflows and integer overflows, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via TIFF files.

Patch / fix

  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.6.1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0803

  • tetex RHEL 3 1.0.7-67.7
  • tetex-afm RHEL 3 1.0.7-67.7
  • tetex-xdvi RHEL 3 1.0.7-67.7
  • tetex-dvips RHEL 3 1.0.7-67.7
  • tetex-fonts RHEL 3 1.0.7-67.7
  • tetex-latex RHEL 3 1.0.7-67.7
  • kdegraphics RHEL 3 7:3.1.3-3.7
  • libtiff RHEL 3 3.5.7-20.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:354RHSA-2005:021RHSA-2004:577

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-0803 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 tetex 1.0.7-67.7, libtiff 3.5.7-20.1, tetex-afm 1.0.7-67.7, kdegraphics 3.1.3-3.7, tetex-xdvi 1.0.7-67.7, tetex-dvips 1.0.7-67.7, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 tetex 1.0.7-67.7, libtiff 3.5.7-20.1, tetex-afm 1.0.7-67.7, kdegraphics 3.1.3-3.7, tetex-xdvi 1.0.7-67.7, tetex-dvips 1.0.7-67.7, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 tetex 1.0.7-67.7, libtiff 3.5.7-20.1, tetex-afm 1.0.7-67.7, kdegraphics 3.1.3-3.7, tetex-xdvi 1.0.7-67.7, tetex-dvips 1.0.7-67.7, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 tetex 1.0.7-67.7, libtiff 3.5.7-20.1, tetex-afm 1.0.7-67.7, kdegraphics 3.1.3-3.7, tetex-xdvi 1.0.7-67.7, tetex-dvips 1.0.7-67.7, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:021

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

8.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.