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
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2012-2113
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00010.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1054.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49493
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49686
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50726
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2552
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:101
- http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/v4.0.2.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54076
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810551
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15083566