CAPEC |
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Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
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Overflow Buffers
Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
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Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
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Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
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MIME Conversion
An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
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Overflow Binary Resource File
An attack of this type exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of binary resources. Binary resources may include music files like MP3, image files like JPEG files, and any other binary file. These attacks may pass unnoticed to the client machine through normal usage of files, such as a browser loading a seemingly innocent JPEG file. This can allow the attacker access to the execution stack and execute arbitrary code in the target process. This attack pattern is a variant of standard buffer overflow attacks using an unexpected vector (binary files) to wrap its attack and open up a new attack vector. The attacker is required to either directly serve the binary content to the victim, or place it in a locale like a MP3 sharing application, for the victim to download. The attacker then is notified upon the download or otherwise locates the vulnerability opened up by the buffer overflow.
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Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
This type of attack leverages the use of symbolic links to cause buffer overflows. An attacker can try to create or manipulate a symbolic link file such that its contents result in out of bounds data. When the target software processes the symbolic link file, it could potentially overflow internal buffers with insufficient bounds checking.
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Overflow Variables and Tags
This type of attack leverages the use of tags or variables from a formatted configuration data to cause buffer overflow. The attacker crafts a malicious HTML page or configuration file that includes oversized strings, thus causing an overflow.
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Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
In this attack, the target software is given input that the attacker knows will be modified and expanded in size during processing. This attack relies on the target software failing to anticipate that the expanded data may exceed some internal limit, thereby creating a buffer overflow.
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Buffer Overflow in an API Call
This attack targets libraries or shared code modules which are vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks. An attacker who has access to an API may try to embed malicious code in the API function call and exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability in the function's implementation. All clients that make use of the code library thus become vulnerable by association. This has a very broad effect on security across a system, usually affecting more than one software process.
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Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities
This attack targets command-line utilities available in a number of shells. An attacker can leverage a vulnerability found in a command-line utility to escalate privilege to root.
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NASL family | Red Hat Local Security Checks | NASL id | REDHAT-RHSA-2008-0848.NASL | description | Updated libtiff packages that fix various security issues and a bug
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security
team for reporting this issue.
A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the tiff2pdf conversion
program distributed with libtiff. An attacker could create a TIFF file
containing UTF-8 characters that would, when converted to PDF format,
cause tiff2pdf to crash, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2006-2193)
Additionally, these updated packages fix the following bug :
* the libtiff packages included manual pages for the sgi2tiff and
tiffsv commands, which are not included in these packages. These
extraneous manual pages were removed.
All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-27 | plugin id | 34064 | published | 2008-08-30 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34064 | title | RHEL 4 : libtiff (RHSA-2008:0848) |
NASL family | OracleVM Local Security Checks | NASL id | ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2009-0027.NASL | description | The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address
critical security updates :
- Fix buffer overrun risks caused by unchecked integer
overflow (CVE-2009-2347) Resolves: #507725
- Fix some more LZW decoding vulnerabilities
(CVE-2009-2285) Resolves: #507725
- Update upstream URL
- Use -fno-strict-aliasing per rpmdiff recommendation
- Fix LZW decoding vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-2327)
Resolves: #458812
- Remove sgi2tiff.1 and tiffsv.1, since they are for
programs we don't ship Resolves: #460120 | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-07-24 | plugin id | 79467 | published | 2014-11-26 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=79467 | title | OracleVM 2.1 : libtiff (OVMSA-2009-0027) |
NASL family | Scientific Linux Local Security Checks | NASL id | SL_20080828_LIBTIFF_ON_SL3_X.NASL | description | Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
SL4: A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the tiff2pdf conversion
program distributed with libtiff. An attacker could create a TIFF file
containing UTF-8 characters that would, when converted to PDF format,
cause tiff2pdf to crash, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2006-2193)
SL4 & SL5: Additionally, these updated packages fix the following
bug :
- the libtiff packages included manual pages for the
sgi2tiff and tiffsv commands, which are not included in
these packages. These extraneous manual pages were
removed. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2019-01-07 | plugin id | 60471 | published | 2012-08-01 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=60471 | title | Scientific Linux Security Update : libtiff on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64 |
NASL family | CentOS Local Security Checks | NASL id | CENTOS_RHSA-2008-0848.NASL | description | Updated libtiff packages that fix various security issues and a bug
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security
team for reporting this issue.
A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the tiff2pdf conversion
program distributed with libtiff. An attacker could create a TIFF file
containing UTF-8 characters that would, when converted to PDF format,
cause tiff2pdf to crash, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2006-2193)
Additionally, these updated packages fix the following bug :
* the libtiff packages included manual pages for the sgi2tiff and
tiffsv commands, which are not included in these packages. These
extraneous manual pages were removed.
All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-10 | plugin id | 67063 | published | 2013-06-29 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=67063 | title | CentOS 4 : libtiff (CESA-2008:0848) |
NASL family | Windows | NASL id | SAFARI_3_2.NASL | description | The version of Safari installed on the remote Windows host is earlier
than 3.2. Such versions are potentially affected by several issues :
- Safari includes a version of zlib that is affected by
multiple vulnerabilities. (CVE-2005-2096)
- A heap-based buffer overflow issue in the libxslt library
could lead to a crash or arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2008-1767)
- A signedness issue in Safari's handling of JavaScript
array indices could lead to a crash or arbitrary code
execution. (CVE-2008-2303)
- A memory corruption issue in WebCore's handling of style
sheet elements could lead to a crash or arbitrary code
execution. (CVE-2008-2317)
- Multiple uninitialized memory access issues in libTIFF's
handling of LZW-encoded TIFF images could lead to a
crash or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2008-2327)
- A memory corruption issue in ImageIO's handling of TIFF
images could lead to a crash or arbitrary code
execution. (CVE-2008-2332).
- A memory corruption issue in ImageIO's handling of
embedded ICC profiles in JPEG images could lead to a
crash or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2008-3608)
- A heap-based buffer overflow in CoreGraphics' handling
of color spaces could lead to a crash or arbitrary code
execution. (CVE-2008-3623)
- A buffer overflow in the handling of images with an
embedded ICC profile could lead to a crash or arbitrary
code execution. (CVE-2008-3642)
- Disabling autocomplete on a form field may not prevent
the data in the field from being stored in the browser
page cache. (CVE-2008-3644)
- WebKit's plug-in interface does not block plug-ins from
launching local URLs, which could allow a remote
attacker to launch local files in Safari and lead to the
disclosure of sensitive information. (CVE-2008-4216) | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-07-27 | plugin id | 34772 | published | 2008-11-14 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34772 | title | Safari < 3.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
NASL family | MacOS X Local Security Checks | NASL id | MACOSX_10_5_5.NASL | description | The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.5.x that is prior
to 10.5.5.
Mac OS X 10.5.5 contains security fixes for a number of programs. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-07-14 | plugin id | 34211 | published | 2008-09-16 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34211 | title | Mac OS X 10.5.x < 10.5.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
NASL family | VMware ESX Local Security Checks | NASL id | VMWARE_VMSA-2008-0017.NASL | description | a. Updated ESX Service Console package libxml2
A denial of service flaw was found in the way libxml2 processes
certain content. If an application that is linked against
libxml2 processes malformed XML content, the XML content might
cause the application to stop responding.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2008-3281 to this issue.
Additionally the following was also fixed, but was missing in the
security advisory.
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2
handled long XML entity names. If an application linked against
libxml2 processed untrusted malformed XML content, it could cause
the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2008-3529 to this issue.
b. Updated ESX Service Console package ucd-snmp
A flaw was found in the way ucd-snmp checks an SNMPv3 packet's
Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code. An attacker could use
this flaw to spoof an authenticated SNMPv3 packet.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2008-0960 to this issue.
c. Updated third-party library libtiff
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2008-2327 to this issue. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-08-06 | plugin id | 40384 | published | 2009-07-27 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=40384 | title | VMSA-2008-0017 : Updated ESX packages for libxml2, ucd-snmp, libtiff |
NASL family | MacOS X Local Security Checks | NASL id | MACOSX_SECUPD2008-006.NASL | description | The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.4 that does not
have the security update 2008-006 applied.
This update contains security fixes for a number of programs. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-07-14 | plugin id | 34210 | published | 2008-09-16 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34210 | title | Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2008-006) |
NASL family | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | NASL id | ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2008-0848.NASL | description | From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0848 :
Updated libtiff packages that fix various security issues and a bug
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security
team for reporting this issue.
A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the tiff2pdf conversion
program distributed with libtiff. An attacker could create a TIFF file
containing UTF-8 characters that would, when converted to PDF format,
cause tiff2pdf to crash, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2006-2193)
Additionally, these updated packages fix the following bug :
* the libtiff packages included manual pages for the sgi2tiff and
tiffsv commands, which are not included in these packages. These
extraneous manual pages were removed.
All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2015-12-01 | plugin id | 67740 | published | 2013-07-12 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=67740 | title | Oracle Linux 4 : libtiff (ELSA-2008-0848) |
NASL family | SuSE Local Security Checks | NASL id | SUSE_11_0_LIBTIFF-080820.NASL | description | A buffer underflow (CVE-2008-2327) has been fixed in libtiff. | last seen | 2018-09-01 | modified | 2014-06-13 | plugin id | 40048 | published | 2009-07-21 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=40048 | title | openSUSE Security Update : libtiff (libtiff-162) |
NASL family | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | NASL id | UBUNTU_USN-639-1.NASL | description | Drew Yao discovered that the TIFF library did not correctly validate
LZW compressed TIFF images. If a user or automated system were tricked
into processing a malicious image, a remote attacker could execute
arbitrary code or cause an application linked against libtiff to
crash, leading to a denial of service.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-28 | plugin id | 34080 | published | 2008-09-03 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34080 | title | Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : tiff vulnerability (USN-639-1) |
NASL family | Red Hat Local Security Checks | NASL id | REDHAT-RHSA-2008-0847.NASL | description | Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue and a bug are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security
team for reporting this issue.
Additionally, these updated packages fix the following bug :
* the libtiff packages included manual pages for the sgi2tiff and
tiffsv commands, which are not included in these packages. These
extraneous manual pages were removed.
All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-27 | plugin id | 34063 | published | 2008-08-30 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34063 | title | RHEL 5 : libtiff (RHSA-2008:0847) |
NASL family | Fedora Local Security Checks | NASL id | FEDORA_2008-7388.NASL | description | Fixes LZW decoding vulnerabilities described in CVE-2008-2327
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2015-10-21 | plugin id | 34129 | published | 2008-09-10 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34129 | title | Fedora 8 : libtiff-3.8.2-11.fc8 (2008-7388) |
NASL family | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | NASL id | ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2008-0863.NASL | description | From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0863 :
Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security
team for reporting this issue.
All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to resolve this issue. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2015-12-01 | plugin id | 67743 | published | 2013-07-12 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=67743 | title | Oracle Linux 3 : libtiff (ELSA-2008-0863) |
NASL family | SuSE Local Security Checks | NASL id | SUSE_LIBTIFF-5538.NASL | description | A buffer underflow (CVE-2008-2327) has been fixed in libtiff. | last seen | 2018-09-02 | modified | 2012-05-17 | plugin id | 34074 | published | 2008-09-03 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34074 | title | SuSE 10 Security Update : libtiff (ZYPP Patch Number 5538) |
NASL family | Mandriva Local Security Checks | NASL id | MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2008-184.NASL | description | Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security Team reported multiple uses of
uninitialized values in libtiff's LZW compression algorithm decoder.
An attacker could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file
that would cause an application linked to libtiff to crash or
potentially execute arbitrary code (CVE-2008-2327).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-07-19 | plugin id | 37814 | published | 2009-04-23 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=37814 | title | Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libtiff (MDVSA-2008:184) |
NASL family | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | NASL id | ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2008-0847.NASL | description | From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0847 :
Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue and a bug are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security
team for reporting this issue.
Additionally, these updated packages fix the following bug :
* the libtiff packages included manual pages for the sgi2tiff and
tiffsv commands, which are not included in these packages. These
extraneous manual pages were removed.
All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2015-12-01 | plugin id | 67739 | published | 2013-07-12 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=67739 | title | Oracle Linux 5 : libtiff (ELSA-2008-0847) |
NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks | NASL id | DEBIAN_DSA-1632.NASL | description | Drew Yao discovered that libTIFF, a library for handling the Tagged
Image File Format, is vulnerable to a programming error allowing
malformed tiff files to lead to a crash or execution of arbitrary
code. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-10 | plugin id | 34053 | published | 2008-08-27 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34053 | title | Debian DSA-1632-1 : tiff - buffer underflow |
NASL family | Fedora Local Security Checks | NASL id | FEDORA_2008-7370.NASL | description | Fixes LZW decoding vulnerabilities described in CVE-2008-2327
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2015-10-21 | plugin id | 34128 | published | 2008-09-10 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34128 | title | Fedora 9 : libtiff-3.8.2-11.fc9 (2008-7370) |
NASL family | Red Hat Local Security Checks | NASL id | REDHAT-RHSA-2008-0863.NASL | description | Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security
team for reporting this issue.
All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to resolve this issue. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-27 | plugin id | 34065 | published | 2008-08-30 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34065 | title | RHEL 2.1 / 3 : libtiff (RHSA-2008:0863) |
NASL family | CentOS Local Security Checks | NASL id | CENTOS_RHSA-2008-0863.NASL | description | Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security
team for reporting this issue.
All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to resolve this issue. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-10 | plugin id | 34062 | published | 2008-08-30 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34062 | title | CentOS 3 : libtiff (CESA-2008:0863) |
NASL family | SuSE Local Security Checks | NASL id | SUSE9_12229.NASL | description | A buffer underflow (CVE-2008-2327) has been fixed in libtiff. | last seen | 2018-09-02 | modified | 2012-04-23 | plugin id | 41236 | published | 2009-09-24 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=41236 | title | SuSE9 Security Update : libtiff (YOU Patch Number 12229) |
NASL family | CentOS Local Security Checks | NASL id | CENTOS_RHSA-2008-0847.NASL | description | Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue and a bug are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would
cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security
team for reporting this issue.
Additionally, these updated packages fix the following bug :
* the libtiff packages included manual pages for the sgi2tiff and
tiffsv commands, which are not included in these packages. These
extraneous manual pages were removed.
All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-11-10 | plugin id | 43707 | published | 2010-01-06 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=43707 | title | CentOS 5 : libtiff (CESA-2008:0847) |
NASL family | Gentoo Local Security Checks | NASL id | GENTOO_GLSA-200809-07.NASL | description | The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200809-07
(libTIFF: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code)
Drew Yao (Apple Product Security) and Clay Wood reported multiple
buffer underflows in the LZWDecode() and LZWDecodeCompat() functions in
tif_lzw.c when processing TIFF files.
Impact :
A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted TIFF
file with an application making use of libTIFF, possibly resulting in
the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
running the application.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time. | last seen | 2019-01-16 | modified | 2018-08-10 | plugin id | 34114 | published | 2008-09-09 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34114 | title | GLSA-200809-07 : libTIFF: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code |
NASL family | SuSE Local Security Checks | NASL id | SUSE_LIBTIFF-5540.NASL | description | A buffer underflow (CVE-2008-2327) has been fixed in libtiff. | last seen | 2018-09-01 | modified | 2014-06-13 | plugin id | 34075 | published | 2008-09-03 | reporter | Tenable | source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=34075 | title | openSUSE 10 Security Update : libtiff (libtiff-5540) |
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