National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-5581

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in tif_dir.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted DOTRANGE tag in a TIFF image.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867235

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867235

External Source: XF

Name: libtiff-dotrange-bo(80339)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/80339

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1655-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1655-1

External Source: BID

Name: 56715

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56715

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20121128 libtiff: Stack based buffer overflow when handling DOTRANGE tags

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/28/1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 51491

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/51491

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1590

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1590.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2013:0187

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00076.html