Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2552-1 tiff

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2552-1 tiff -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

26 Sep 2012

Affected Packages:

tiff

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 678140.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-2482, CVE-2010-2595, CVE-2010-2597, CVE-2010-2630, CVE-2010-4665, CVE-2012-2088, CVE-2012-2113, CVE-2012-3401.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in TIFF, a library set and tools to support the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), allowing denial of service and potential privilege escalation.

These vulnerabilities can be exploited via a specially crafted TIFF image.

• CVE-2012-2113

  The tiff2pdf utility has an integer overflow error when parsing images.

• CVE-2012-3401

  Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered heap-based buffer overflow in the t2p_read_tiff_init() function.

• CVE-2010-2482

  An invalid td_stripbytecount field is not properly handle and can trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

• CVE-2010-2595

  An array index error, related to downsampled OJPEG input in the TIFFYCbCrtoRGB function causes an unexpected crash.

• CVE-2010-2597

  Also related to downsampled OJPEG input, the TIFFVStripSize function crash unexpectly.

• CVE-2010-2630

  The TIFFReadDirectory function does not properly validate the data types of codec-specific tags that have an out-of-order position in a TIFF file.

• CVE-2010-4665

  The tiffdump utility has an integer overflow in the ReadDirectory function.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.4-5+squeeze5.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.