Bug 1374701 (CVE-2016-7127)

Summary: CVE-2016-7127 php: imagegammacorrect allows arbitrary write access
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: abhgupta, dmcphers, fedora, hhorak, jialiu, jokerman, jorton, kseifried, lmeyer, mmccomas, rcollet, tiwillia, webstack-team, yozone
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-09-09 13:01:27 UTC 
The following flaw was found in PHP:

imagegammacorrect accepts two gamma values, if they don't have the same sign then the palette colors will be assigned values bigger than 0xFF, later this values are used to calculate the transparent color using the gdTrueColorAlpha macro, and a negative value will be assigned to the transparent color. 

A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application.

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72730

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/1bd103df00f49cf4d4ade2cfe3f456ac058a4eae?w=1
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-10-20 05:30:00 UTC 
Analysis:

In order to exploit this, you need to pass specially crafted values to imagegammacorrect() function, which works on the previously created image object. This implies that the attacker needs to have control over the gamma values being passed to the image, which is an unlikely situation in a normal PHP application.
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-15 11:45:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS

Via RHSA-2016:2750 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html