Bug 695885 (CVE-2009-5022)

Summary: CVE-2009-5022 libtiff ojpeg buffer overflow
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: mjc, rcvalle, tgl
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Bug Depends On: 696143, 696144, 696204, 836126    
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Description Josh Bressers 2011-04-12 21:14:23 UTC
The libtiff OJPEG decoder contains a heap buffer overflow when decoding
certain malformed data.

This was made known via the upstream 3.9.5 announcement. The bug is quite
old.

upstream bug:
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1999

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2011-04-12 21:15:38 UTC
Statement:

This flaw did not affect libtiff as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5. The OJPEG decoder is disabled in those distributions.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2011-04-13 14:41:14 UTC
Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 696204]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-04-18 15:49:29 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0452 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0452.html