libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200608-07 / tiff
Release Date	August 04, 2006
Latest Revision	August 04, 2006: 01
Impact	normal
Exploitable	remote

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
media-libs/tiff	< 3.8.2-r2	>= 3.8.2-r2	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #142383

Synopsis

libTIFF contains several vulnerabilities that could result in arbitrary code execution.

2. Impact Information

Background

libTIFF provides support for reading and manipulating TIFF images.

Description

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several heap and stack buffer overflows and other flaws in libTIFF. The affected parts include the TIFFFetchShortPair(), TIFFScanLineSize() and EstimateStripByteCounts() functions, and the PixarLog and NeXT RLE decoders.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted TIFF file, resulting in the possible execution of arbitrary code.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libTIFF users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/tiff-3.8.2-r2"

4. References

Page updated August 04, 2006

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