Bug 610759 (CVE-2010-2596) - CVE-2010-2596 libtiff: assertion failure on downsampled OJPEG file
Summary: CVE-2010-2596 libtiff: assertion failure on downsampled OJPEG file
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-2596
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 583081 1063464 1063465
Blocks: 994449
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Reported: 2010-07-02 11:56 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-24 22:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-02-27 19:35:37 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0222 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: libtiff security update 2014-02-27 23:33:36 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-02 11:56:11 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-2596 to
the following vulnerability:

The OJPEGPostDecode function in tif_ojpeg.c in LibTIFF 3.9.0 and
3.9.2, as used in tiff2ps, allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a crafted TIFF
image, related to "downsampled OJPEG input."

References:
  [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2596
  [2] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2209
  [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583081
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-02 11:58:21 UTC 
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the libtiff package,
as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

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This issue affects the versions of the libtiff package,
as shipped with Fedora releases of 12 and 13.

This issue affects the versions of the mingw32-libtiff package,
as shipped with Fedora releases of 12 and 13.
Comment 3 Tom Lane 2010-07-02 13:50:17 UTC 
Note that we still are vulnerable to this in Fedora and RHEL6 --- I didn't try to fix this bug since it's not clear what the code should do instead.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-02-27 18:35:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0222 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0222.html
Comment 8 Vincent Danen 2014-02-27 19:35:37 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of libtiff as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.
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