Bug 610759 (CVE-2010-2596)

Summary:	CVE-2010-2596 libtiff: assertion failure on downsampled OJPEG file
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	erik-fedora, hhorak, ploujj
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	583081, 1063464, 1063465
Bug Blocks:	994449

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-02 11:56:11 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-2596 to
the following vulnerability:

The OJPEGPostDecode function in tif_ojpeg.c in LibTIFF 3.9.0 and
3.9.2, as used in tiff2ps, allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a crafted TIFF
image, related to "downsampled OJPEG input."

References:
  [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2596
  [2] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2209
  [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583081

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-02 11:58:21 UTC

This issue did NOT affect the versions of the libtiff package,
as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

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This issue affects the versions of the libtiff package,
as shipped with Fedora releases of 12 and 13.

This issue affects the versions of the mingw32-libtiff package,
as shipped with Fedora releases of 12 and 13.

Comment 3 Tom Lane 2010-07-02 13:50:17 UTC

Note that we still are vulnerable to this in Fedora and RHEL6 --- I didn't try to fix this bug since it's not clear what the code should do instead.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-02-27 18:35:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0222 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0222.html

Comment 8 Vincent Danen 2014-02-27 19:35:37 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of libtiff as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.