CVE-2012-4564

medium

Published 2012-11-11 · 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

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.

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

Red Hat Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
6.3	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—
5.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
11.4	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.10	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—
11.10	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—
8.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.0.2-5`
sid	Fixed	`4.0.2-5`
forky	Fixed	`4.0.2-5`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.0.2-5`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.0.2-5`
7.0	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libtiff	libtiff	`{"endIncluding":"4.0.3"}`

References

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

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