VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4447

medium
Published 2012-10-28 · 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
6.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in tif_pixarlog.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF image using the PixarLog Compression format.

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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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.0.2-4
sid Fixed 4.0.2-4
forky Fixed 4.0.2-4
bullseye Fixed 4.0.2-4
bookworm Fixed 4.0.2-4

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libtifflibtiff{"endIncluding":"4.0.2"}
libtifflibtiff3.4
libtifflibtiff3.5.1
libtifflibtiff3.5.2
libtifflibtiff3.5.3
libtifflibtiff3.5.4
libtifflibtiff3.5.5
libtifflibtiff3.5.6
libtifflibtiff3.5.7
libtifflibtiff3.6.0
libtifflibtiff3.6.1
libtifflibtiff3.7.0
libtifflibtiff3.7.1
libtifflibtiff3.7.2
libtifflibtiff3.7.3
libtifflibtiff3.7.4
libtifflibtiff3.8.0
libtifflibtiff3.8.1
libtifflibtiff3.8.2
libtifflibtiff3.9
libtifflibtiff3.9.0
libtifflibtiff3.9.1
libtifflibtiff3.9.2
libtifflibtiff3.9.2-5.2.1
libtifflibtiff3.9.3
libtifflibtiff3.9.4
libtifflibtiff3.9.5
libtifflibtiff4.0
libtifflibtiff4.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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