CVE-2012-4564

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

ppm2tiff does not check the return value of the TIFFScanlineSize function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPM image that triggers an integer overflow, a zero-memory allocation, and a heap-based buffer overflow.

ppm2tiff does not check the return value of the TIFFScanlineSize function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPM image that triggers an integer overflow, a zero-memory allocation, and a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-11-11 13:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:32:00

Affected Software

LibTIFF

References

openSUSE-SU-2013:0187

RHSA-2012:1590

51133

Vendor Advisory

DSA-2575

[oss-security] 20121102 libtiff: Missing return value check in ppm2tiff leading to heap-buffer overflow when reading a tiff file

[oss-security] 20121102 Re: libtiff: Missing return value check in ppm2tiff leading to heap-buffer overflow when reading a tiff file

86878

56372

USN-1631-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871700

libtiff-ppm2tiff-bo(79750)

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