CVE-2009-5022

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-05-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in tif_ojpeg.c in the OJPEG decoder in LibTIFF before 3.9.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF file.

Affected products

libtiff: through 3.9.4; 3.4, 3.4-beta18, 3.4-beta24, 3.4-beta28, 3.4-beta29, 3.4-beta31 (+40)

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1999
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058478.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/12/10
http://secunia.com/advisories/44271
http://secunia.com/advisories/50726
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-02.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025380
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2256
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:078
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0452.html
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/v3.9.5.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47338

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