CVE-2026-12912
A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted PixarLog-compressed TIFF image.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.43%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A flaw was found in libtiff. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted PixarLog-compressed TIFF image. This issue occurs when decoding Pixarlog codec images with the PIXARLOGDATAFMT_8BITABGR output format and a specific stride value, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. This could potentially result in arbitrary code execution or a denial of service (DoS).
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.3 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.43% probability · 37th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-122
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34890
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41892
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42668
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47183
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47184
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:49671
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50774
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54638
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54640
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54642
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58545
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58553
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58554
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58556
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:61657
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12912
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492871
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/873
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/work_items/824
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34890
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41892
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42668
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47183
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47184
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:49671
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50774
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54638
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54640
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54642
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58545
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.