CVE-2011-1167

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-03-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the thunder (aka ThunderScan) decoder in tif_thunder.c in LibTIFF 3.9.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted THUNDER_2BITDELTAS data in a .tiff file that has an unexpected BitsPerSample value.

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://blackberry.com/btsc/KB27244
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2300
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057763.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057840.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43900
http://secunia.com/advisories/43934
http://secunia.com/advisories/43974
http://secunia.com/advisories/44117

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