LibTIFF TIFFVSetField Denial of Service Vulnerability - Advisories

LibTIFF TIFFVSetField Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:	SA18587
Release Date:	2006-01-23
Last Update:	2006-01-26

Critical:	Not critical
Impact:	DoS
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Unpatched

Software:	LibTIFF 3.x

CVE reference:	CVE-2006-0405 (Secunia mirror)

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Description: Herve Drolon has reported a vulnerability in LibTIFF, which can be exploited by malicious people to crash certain applications on a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereferencing error in tif_dir.c. This can be exploited to crash an application linked against LibTIFF when a specially crafted TIFF image is processed. The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 3.8.0. Other versions may also be affected. Solution: The vendor has supplied a patch for this vulnerability. However, it is still possible to cause an application to crash via certain crafted TIFF images. Provided and/or discovered by: Herve Drolon Changelog: 2006-01-26: Added CVE reference. Original Advisory: http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034



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