Bug 611895 (CVE-2010-2481)

Summary:	CVE-2010-2481 libtiff: TIFFExtractData out-of-bounds read crash
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Tomas Hoger 2010-07-06 19:32:57 UTC

The TIFFExtractData macro in LibTIFF before 3.9.4 does not properly
handle unknown tag types in TIFF directory entries, which allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and
application crash) via a crafted TIFF file.

References:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/3075/focus=3097
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2210

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2010-07-06 19:35:50 UTC

According to Dan Rosenberg's report, this was originally reported to iDefense.  Dan did not publish too much details about this issue, as it's addressed by Tom's patch from upstream bug report #2210.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2010-07-08 15:34:59 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0519 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0519.html