6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-5581

Published: 04/01/2013 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in tif_dir.c in LibTIFF prior to 4.0.2 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted DOTRANGE tag in a TIFF image.

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libtiff libtiff 3.4

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libtiff libtiff 4.0

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libtiff libtiff 3.8.1

libtiff libtiff 3.9.5

libtiff libtiff 3.9.3

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libtiff libtiff 3.8.2

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libtiff libtiff 3.9.2-5.2.1

libtiff libtiff 3.5.3

libtiff libtiff 3.7.1

libtiff libtiff 3.5.4

libtiff libtiff 3.5.2

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libtiff libtiff 3.9.1

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Moderate: libtiff security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated libtiff packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact Common Vulne ...
Debian Bug report logs - #694693 tiff: CVE-2012-5581 Package: libtiff4; Maintainer for libtiff4 is (unknown); Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:21:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Found in version tiff3/396-9 Fixed in version tiff3/396-10 Done: Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debi ...
Programs that use LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs if they opened a specially crafted file ...
The tiff library for handling TIFF image files contained a stack-based buffer overflow, potentially allowing attackers who can submit such files to a vulnerable system to execute arbitrary code For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 394-5+squeeze8 For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable dist ...
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF images using the Pixar Log Format encoding An attacker could create a specially-crafted TIFF file that, when opened, could cause an application using libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application (C ...