Bug 1344069 – CVE-2016-5319 libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in bmp2tiff

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Bug 1344069 - (CVE-2016-5319) CVE-2016-5319 libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in bmp2tiff

Summary:	CVE-2016-5319 libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in bmp2tiff

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5319

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

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Depends On:	1344072 1344070 1344071
Blocks:	1344073
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Reported:	2016-06-08 12:32 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2017-01-20 00:25 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2017-01-16 01:27:56 EST
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 12:32:27 EDT

Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in tif_packbits.c in PackBitsEncode function. Memory corruption can be triggered when bmp2tiff is handling maliciously crafted bmp file causing application to crash.

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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/486

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 12:33:45 EDT

Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1344070]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 12:33:49 EDT

Created mingw-libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1344071]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1344072]

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-01-16 01:27:56 EST

https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/ -> the forked version of libtiff, reacted to this flaw by removing the bmp2tiff utility from the package.

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