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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:35:07 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: libtiff: Missing return value check in ppm2tiff
 leading to heap-buffer overflow when reading a tiff file

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On 11/02/2012 04:23 AM, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> A flaw was found in the way ppm2tiff, a tool to create a TIFF file
> from PPM, PGM and PBM image files, did not check the return value
> of TIFFScanlineSize() function. When TIFFScanlineSize encountered
> an integer-overflow and returned zero, this value was not checked.
> A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted PPM image
> format file, that when processed by ppm2tiff would lead to ppm2tiff
> executable crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with the
> privileges of the user running the ppm2tiff binary.
> 
> Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871700

Just for the sake of clarity, this was previously assigned
CVE-2012-4564.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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