Input validation error in LibTIFF - CVE-2012-2113

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Input validation error in LibTIFF - CVE-2012-2113

Published: July 22, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU43805
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2113
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Multiple integer overflows in tiff2pdf in libtiff before 4.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted tiff image, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.


Affected software

LibTIFF
Amazon Linux AMI
Ubuntu
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
libtiff4 (Ubuntu package)
libtiff-tools (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2012-2113

Install update from vendor's website.

libtiff4 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 3.8.2-7ubuntu3.12, 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.9, 3.9.4-5ubuntu6.2, 3.9.5-1ubuntu1.2, 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1
libtiff-tools (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 3.8.2-7ubuntu3.12, 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.9, 3.9.4-5ubuntu6.2, 3.9.5-1ubuntu1.2, 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1

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