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Latest version of this security advisory is available from http://support.oracle.com as Sun Alert 1001005.1.
Article ID : 1001005.1
Article Type : Sun Alerts (SURE)
Last reviewed : 2008-09-01
Audience : PUBLIC
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Security Vulnerabilities in libtiff(3) May Allow Denial of Service (DoS) or Privilege Elevation



Category
Security

Release Phase
Resolved

Bug Id
6451119

Product
Solaris 8 Operating System
Solaris 9 Operating System
Solaris 10 Operating System

Date of Workaround Release
28-NOV-2007

Date of Resolved Release
02-Sep-2008

Multiple security vulnerabilities exist in the Tag Image File format library (libtiff(3)):

Impact

Multiple security vulnerabilities exist in the Tag Image File format library (libtiff(3)) which may affect applications making use of this library. Depending on the individual application, these vulnerabilities may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) to the application, or to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application.

These issues are described in the following documents:

Sun acknowledges with thanks, Travis Ormandy from the Google Security Team for bringing these issues to our attention.

Contributing Factors

These issues can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

  • Solaris 8 without patch 139093-01
  • Solaris 9 without patch 125673-02
  • Solaris 10 without patch 119900-04

x86 Platform

  • Solaris 8 without patch 139094-01
  • Solaris 9 without patch 125674-02
  • Solaris 10 without patch 119901-04
Symptoms

If the described issues have been exploited to cause a Denial of Service (DoS), the affected application will crash, potentially leaving a core file depending on the system configuration.

There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate that these issues have been exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

To work around the described issues, only load images from trusted sources.

Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following release:

SPARC Platform

  • Solaris 8 with patch 139093-01 or later
  • Solaris 9 with patch 125673-02 or later
  • Solaris 10 with patch 119900-04 or later

x86 Platform

  • Solaris 8 with patch 139094-01 or later
  • Solaris 9 with patch 125674-02 or later
  • Solaris 10 with patch 119901-04 or later
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Modification History
02-Sept-2008: Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections. Resolved


References

119901-04
119900-04
125673-02
125674-02
139093-01
139094-01





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