Bug 1520234 (CVE-2017-1000229)

Summary:	CVE-2017-1000229 optipng: integer overflow in tiffread.c:minitiff_read_info() leading to denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dkholia, herrold, jgrulich, opensource
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	An integer overflow flaw leading to heap memory corruption was found in the way OptiPNG handles processing of TIFF files. This flaw could potentially be used to crash the OptiPNG program by tricking it into processing crafted TIFF files.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1520235
Bug Blocks:	1520229

Description Sam Fowler 2017-12-04 06:03:01 UTC

Integer overflow bug in function tiffread.c:minitiff_read_info() of optipng 0.7.6 allows an attacker to cause denial of service.

References:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000229
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3495-1/
https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/65/
https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/_discuss/thread/2a56b3aa/f6bb/attachment/0001-Prevent-integer-overflow-bug-65-CVE-2017-1000229.patch

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2017-12-04 06:03:26 UTC

Created optipng tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1520235]

Comment 4 Dhiru Kholia 2018-01-05 08:19:38 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.