#201331: Security Vulnerabilities in libtiff(3) May Allow Denial of Service (DoS) or Privilege Elevation

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:

CVE-2006-3459 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3459
CVE-2006-3460 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3460
CVE-2006-3461 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3461
CVE-2006-3462 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3462
CVE-2006-3463 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3463
CVE-2006-2193 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2193
CVE-2006-3464 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3464
CVE-2006-3465 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3465

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

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Technical Instruction ID 213557.

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Modification History

02-Sept-2008: Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections. Resolved

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