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
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-5319
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1344070 1344071 1344072
Blocks: 1344073
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-08 16:32 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-01-16 06:27:56 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 16:32:27 UTC 
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 16:33:45 UTC 
Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1344070]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-06-08 16:33:49 UTC 
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 06:27:56 UTC 
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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