CVE-2012-0276

medium

Published 2012-07-17 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in XnView before 1.99 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) SGI32LogLum compressed TIFF image or (2) SGI32LogLum compressed TIFF image with the PhotometricInterpretation encoding set to LogL.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-19337 dos windows verified

Francis Provencher · 2012-06-22

XnView 1.98.8 - '.tiff' Image Processing Heap Overflow (1)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-19338 dos windows verified

Francis Provencher · 2012-06-22

XnView 1.98.8 - '.tiff' Image Processing Heap Overflow (2)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
xnview	xnview	`{"endIncluding":"1.98.8"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.