CVE-2012-1173

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in tiff_getimage.c in LibTIFF 3.9.4 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted tile size in a TIFF file, which is not properly handled by the (1) gtTileSeparate or (2) gtStripSeparate function, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

libtiff: 3.9.4

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/attachment.cgi?id=477&action=diff
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2369
http://home.gdal.org/private/zdi-can-1221/zdi-can-1221.txt
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077463.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078403.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078835.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0468.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48684
http://secunia.com/advisories/48722
http://secunia.com/advisories/48735

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