Bug 137608

Summary: CAN-2004-0803 CAN-2004-0804 CAN-2004-0886 multiple issues in libtiff
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: tetexAssignee: Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Josh Bressers 2004-10-29 19:16:27 UTC 
During a source code audit, Chris Evans discovered a number of integer
overflow bugs that affect libtiff.  teTeX contains an internal copy of
libtiff.  An attacker who has the ability to trick a user into opening
a malicious TIFF file could cause the application linked to libtiff to
crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names
CAN-2004-0886 and CAN-2004-0804 to these issues.

Additionally, a number of buffer overflow bugs that affect libtiff
have been found. teTeX contains an internal copy of libtiff.  An
attacker who has the ability to trick a user into opening a malicious
TIFF file could cause the application linked to libtiff to crash or
possibly execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0803 to
this issue.


These issues also affect FC3.

The ideal fix for these issues will be to have teTeX use the system
libtiff rather than it's internal version.
Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2004-10-30 15:13:21 UTC 
Hello Josh,

we have teTeX-2.0.2 since FC1. This version of teTeX doesn't contain
libtiff at all, so FC1 and later are not affected by this security
issue, libtiff is only present in teTeX-1.0.x, which is present in
RHEL2.1 and RHEL3.

Jindrich