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CVE-2012-4564

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-11-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ppm2tiff does not check the return value of the TIFFScanlineSize function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPM image that triggers an integer overflow, a zero-memory allocation, and a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
• Debian Linux: 6.0, 7.0
• libtiff: through 4.0.3
• Opensuse: 11.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0, 6.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00076.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1590.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51133
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2575
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/02/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/02/7
• http://www.osvdb.org/86878
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56372
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1631-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871700
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79750
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00076.html

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