Bug 1294417 (CVE-2015-7554)

Summary:	CVE-2015-7554 libtiff: Invalid-write in _TIFFVGetField() when parsing some extension tags
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	amaris, carnil, huzaifas, mhradile, phracek, sardella, scorneli, slawomir
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1299918, 1299919, 1299920, 1299921, 1335098, 1335099
Bug Blocks:	1294418, 1410122

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-28 07:05:49 UTC

An Invalid memory write flaw was found in libtiff in the way it parsed certain extension tags when reading TIFF format files. An attacker could use this flaw to crash or even execute arbitrary code with the permission of the user running such an application compiled against libtiff.

Reference:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Dec/137

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-02 16:40:56 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:1547 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1547.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-02 16:59:55 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:1546 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1546.html

Comment 11 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-01-16 06:30:18 UTC

*** Bug 1410063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***