Bug 1520234 (CVE-2017-1000229) - CVE-2017-1000229 optipng: integer overflow in tiffread.c:minitiff_read_info() leading to denial of service
Summary: CVE-2017-1000229 optipng: integer overflow in tiffread.c:minitiff_read_info()...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-1000229
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1520235
Blocks: 1520229
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-12-04 06:03 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:10 UTC (History)
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An integer overflow flaw leading to heap memory corruption was found in the way OptiPNG handles processing of TIFF files. This flaw could potentially be used to crash the OptiPNG program by tricking it into processing crafted TIFF files.
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Last Closed: 2017-12-29 06:27:31 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2017-12-04 06:03:01 UTC 
Integer overflow bug in function tiffread.c:minitiff_read_info() of optipng 0.7.6 allows an attacker to cause denial of service.

References:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000229
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3495-1/
https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/65/
https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/_discuss/thread/2a56b3aa/f6bb/attachment/0001-Prevent-integer-overflow-bug-65-CVE-2017-1000229.patch
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2017-12-04 06:03:26 UTC 
Created optipng tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1520235]
Comment 4 Dhiru Kholia 2018-01-05 08:19:38 UTC 
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Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
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