Bug 678956 – CVE-2011-0191 libtiff: buffer overflow in JPEGDecode

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Bug 678956 - (CVE-2011-0191) CVE-2011-0191 libtiff: buffer overflow in JPEGDecode

Summary:	CVE-2011-0191 libtiff: buffer overflow in JPEGDecode

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2011-0191

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

Priority	high Severity high
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Reported:	2011-02-20 23:47 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2015-11-03 02:19 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2011-02-22 03:33:41 EST
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-02-20 23:47:08 EST

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way TIFF (Tagged Image File
Format) image files manipulating library parsed certain malformed tiff files.
This can be triggered only if libtiff is compiled with JPEG.

If an attacker created a specially-crafted image file and tricked a local, 
unsuspecting user into loading the image file in an application that uses 
the TIFF image manipulating library, it could cause that application to 
crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of 
the user running the application.

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-02-21 01:01:55 EST

Note:
This bug does not affect the version of libtiff 3.8.X shipped with rhel-5 because libtiff is patched with libtiff-jpeg-scanline.patch, which mitigates the patch.

Upstream bug link:
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1936

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-02-22 02:21:26 EST

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of libtiff as
shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.

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