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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:28:50 +0300
From: Henri Salo <henri@...v.fi>
To: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: tiff2pdf: Heap-based buffer overflow due to
improper initialization of T2P context struct pointer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 08:15:59AM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I found the following flaw in the tiff2pdf tool, shipped with libtiff:
>
> A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way tiff2pdf, a TIFF
> image to a PDF document conversion tool, of libtiff, a library of
> functions for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format
> files, performed write of TIFF image content into particular PDF
> document file, when not properly initialized T2P context struct pointer
> has been provided by tiff2pdf (application requesting the conversion)
> as one of parameters for the routine performing the write. A remote
> attacker could provide a specially-crafted TIFF image format file, that
> when processed by tiff2pdf would lead to tiff2pdf executable crash or,
> potentially, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user
> running the tiff2pdf binary.
>
> This issue has been assigned CVE-2012-3401.
>
> Reference:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837577
>
> The relevant patch for the issue has been applied to upstream
> libtiff-4.0.2 branch
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
> Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Security Response Team
Do you know which versions are affected?
- Henri Salo
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