Bug 1291591 – CVE-2015-7216 CVE-2015-7217 Mozilla: Linux file chooser crashes on malformed JPEG2000 and TGA images due to flaws in underlying libraries (MFSA 2015-143)

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Bug 1291591 - (CVE-2015-7216, CVE-2015-7217) CVE-2015-7216 CVE-2015-7217 Mozilla: Linux file chooser crashes on malformed JPEG2000 and TGA images due to flaws in underlying libraries (MFSA 2015-143)

Summary:	CVE-2015-7216 CVE-2015-7217 Mozilla: Linux file chooser crashes on malformed ...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2015-7216, CVE-2015-7217

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2015-12-15 03:51 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-11-24 06:29 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2015-12-16 04:05:45 EST
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-15 03:51:25 EST

Security researcher Gustavo Grieco reported that on Linux Gnome systems the dialog for choosing local files uses the operating system's gdk-pixbuf library to render thumbnails for image file types. This library supports various image decoders, and Grieco reported that the Jasper and TGA decoders were unmaintained and have several known vulnerabilities. Firefox has disabled the use of those decoders in gdk-pixbuf.

This issue only affects Linux systems running Gnome. Windows, OS X, and Android operating systems are unaffected.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-143.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Gustavo Grieco as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2016-11-24 06:29:17 EST

CVE-2015-7216 is for Jasper issues, with Jasper being used by gdk-pixbuf, and CVE-2015-7217 is for TGA issues in gdk-pixbuf.  Issues were fixed in Firefox by disabling support for all image formats expect of few selected.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/83969f2fc719

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