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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:52:36 +0100
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: rea-sec@...elabs.ru, "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...re.org>,
Michael
Sweet <mike@...ysw.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: cups - potential integer overflow
in PNG image reader [was: CUPS DoS via RSS subscriptions]
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:38:30 +0300 Eygene Ryabinkin
<rea-sec@...elabs.ru> wrote:
> > Advisory: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2974
> > Patch: http://www.cups.org/strfiles/2974/str2974.patch
>
> Hmm, my brains aren't in a perfect shape today, so I could be missing
> some important point, but I don't understand how swapping 'xsize' and
> 'ysize' can help to fix anything. IIRC, the order of multiplication
> isn't guaranteed and multiplication is commutative, so 'xsize' and
> 'ysize' both are equally good or bad and one can not prefer either.
The bug suggests that xsize and ysize values use different upper
bounds. So ysize * 3 can overflow (upper bound 2^31-1), while xsize * 3
can't (2^27-1).
--
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team
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