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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 11:25:02 +0200
From: Stefan Cornelius <scorneli@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [oCERT-2015-006] dcraw input sanitization errors
On Mon, 11 May 2015 15:59:55 +0200
Andrea Barisani <lcars@...rt.org> wrote:
>
> #2015-006 dcraw input sanitization errors
>
> Description:
>
> The dcraw photo decoder is an open source project for raw image
> parsing.
>
> The dcraw tool, as well as several other projects re-using its code,
> suffers from an integer overflow condition which lead to a buffer
> overflow. The vulnerability concerns the 'len' variable, parsed
> without validation from opened images, used in the ljpeg_start()
> function.
>
> A maliciously crafted raw image file can be used to trigger the
> vulnerability, causing a Denial of Service condition.
>
Just as a heads-up: This should affect netpbm, too.
https://sourceforge.net/p/netpbm/code/HEAD/tree/advanced/converter/other/cameratopam/ljpeg.c
Although there's a check for "len" in line #37, it shouldn't trigger, as
"len" will be negative at that point.
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