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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:56:02 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: libtiff: Heap-buffer overflow when
processing a TIFF image with PixarLog Compression
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On 09/25/2012 03:06 AM, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
> On 09/23/2012 08:29 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
>
>> "libtiff 4.0.3 brings "various memory buffer access fixes". Does
>> it fix more than CVE-2012-3401?"
>>
>> to which I have no answer. The change log does in fact mention
>> "Various memory buffer access fixes." as the very first change
>> listed for libtiff. Perhaps someone should review code changes.
>>
>
> I had a look at the libtiff-4.0.3 commit logs and found one issue
> which seems to bring a possibility of heap-based buffer overflow
> when using a tiff file with PixarLog compression format.
>
> More details at:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860198
>
> Though memory overwrite outside the heap-buffer is only a few
> bytes, one cannot really overwrite possible arbitrary code
> execution.
>
> Can a CVE id be please assigned to the above flaw?
>
> Found two other commits which seemed interesting, but i dont think
> they could cause arbitrary code execution and i dont want to call
> them security flaws.
>
> 1. OOB read crash tif_packbits.c 2. Memory not properly initialised
> in tif_fax3.c. Again this one was partly fixed in 4.0.2 and
> completely fixed in 4.0.3
>
> If anyone else wants to investigate these in more details, please
> be my guest :)
>
> Thanks!
>
Please use CVE-2012-4447 for this issue.
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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