Bug 1294425 (CVE-2015-8668)

Summary:	CVE-2015-8668 libtiff: OOB read in bmp2tiff
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	carnil, henri, 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

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-28 07:51:28 UTC

A heap-buffer oveflow was found in bmp2tiff, A tool used to created TIFF format files from BMP format image files. An attacker could provide a specially-crafted BMP format file, which when converted to TIFF format, using the bmp2tiff tool, could lead to bmp2tiff executable to crash.

Reference:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Dec/138

Comment 1 Stefan Cornelius 2016-01-05 15:19:32 UTC

I haven't completed my analysis yet, but for now I tend to say that this is only OOB read.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-02 16:41:02 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 12 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-02 17:00:00 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 13 Even Rouault 2016-08-04 09:26:45 UTC

I think the patch is incomplete. See http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2563#c2