Note: This is an archival copy of Security Sun Alert 201072 as previously published on http://sunsolve.sun.com. Latest version of this security advisory is available from http://support.oracle.com as Sun Alert 1000794.1. |
Category Security Release Phase Resolved Solaris 9 Operating System Solaris 10 Operating System Solaris 7 Operating System Solaris 8 Operating System Bug Id 6217996, 6203734, 6203747, 6203736 Date of Workaround Release 25-APR-2005 Date of Resolved Release 04-May-2009 Impact Multiple security vulnerabilities have been found in libtiff(3), a library for reading and writing Tag Image File Format (TIFF) files. These vulnerabilities may allow a remote unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user if that local user has loaded a TIFF image file (.tiff) supplied by an untrusted user. The remote user may be able to crash the TIFF image viewing program as well. The TIFF image files may be picked up in e-mail or from an untrusted web site. These issues are described in the following documents:
Contributing Factors These issues can occur in the following releases: SPARC Platform
x86 Platform
Note 1: In Solaris 8 the libtiff(3) library may be installed in the following directories: /usr/openwin/lib (OpenWindows) /usr/dt/lib/sdtimage (CDE) In Solaris 9 the libtiff(3) library may be installed in the following directories: /usr/sfw/lib(SUNWTiff) /usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9 (SUNWTiffx) /usr/openwin/lib(OpenWindows) /usr/dt/lib/sdtimage (CDE) In Solaris 10 the libtiff(3) library may be installed in the following directories: /usr/lib /usr/lib/sparcv9 Note 2: Sun includes libtiff(3) on the Solaris Companion CD for Solaris 8 (http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/index.html) as an unsupported package which installs to "/opt/sfw" and is vulnerable to this issue. Sites using libtiff from the Solaris Companion CD will have to upgrade to a later version. Symptoms There are no reliable symptoms that would show the described issues have been exploited. Workaround To work around the described issues, do not load TIFF images from untrusted sources. Resolution These issues are addressed in the following releases: SPARC Platform
x86 Platform
Note: This issue is not yet resolved in Solaris 9 (with package SUNWTiff or SUNWTiffx) A final resolution is pending completion. Modification History 04-May-2009: No further updates will be made to this document 06-JUL-2005: Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections 29-AUG-2005: Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections 26-OCT-2005: Updated Impact section References118953-02109931-10 114219-11 118954-02 109932-10 114220-11 119901-01 119900-01 Attachments This solution has no attachment |
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