CVE-2012-5006

critical
Published 2012-09-19 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in npdjvu.dll in Caminova DjVu Browser Plug-in 6.1.4 Build 27351 and other versions before 6.1.4.27993 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Sjbz chunk in a djvu file.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
caminovadjvu_browser_plug-in{"endIncluding":"6.1.4"}

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.