Bug 610786 (CVE-2010-2598)

Summary:	CVE-2010-2598 libtiff: crash when reading image with not configured compression
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	erik-fedora, ploujj, tgl
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-02 12:59:41 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-2598 to
the following vulnerability:

LibTIFF in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 on x86_64 platforms, as
used in tiff2rgba, attempts to process image data even when the
required compression functionality is not configured, which allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF
image, related to "downsampled OJPEG input."

References (in MITRE CVE description):
  [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2598
  [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583081

Further references:
  [3] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2207
  [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583081#c14

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-02 13:02:20 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the libtiff package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

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This issue does NOT affect the current versions of the libtiff
and mingw32-libtiff packages, as shipped with Fedora releases of 12
and 13 (this flaw has been already addressed in those versions).

Comment 5 Tom Lane 2010-07-02 14:00:16 UTC

Actually the problem is not at all specific to 64-bit platforms, though possibly specific manifestations of it might be.

Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2010-07-07 09:41:20 UTC

Tom, thank you for clarification.

(In reply to comment #1)
> This issue affects the versions of the libtiff package, as shipped
> with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

Hence this needs to be correct to: This only affected libtiff in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.  libtiff versions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and later are based on upstream version that stops reading image that does not have compression method configured.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-07-08 15:47:09 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Via RHSA-2010:0520 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0520.html