27729 : LibTIFF Custom Tag Support Unspecified Issue
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2006-08-02

Description

LibTIFF contains an unspecified local overflow related to custom tag support in the TIFF library that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. No further details have been provided.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required, Location Unknown
Attack Type: Input Manipulation, Attack Type Unknown
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.8.2 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Sam Leffler	libtiff	3.5.x
		3.6.x
		3.7.x
		3.8.0
		3.8.1

References

CVE ID: 2006-3465 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 21253 21274 21290 21304 21319 21334 21338 21370 21392 21501 21537 21598 21632 22036 27832
Related OSVDB ID: 27723 27724 27725 27726 27727 27728
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060801-01-P.asc ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304063
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-166.htm
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-07.xml
Other Advisory URL: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Aug/0001.html
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.536600
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103160-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:137
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-330-1
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1137
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-558
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2006:0603 RHSA-2006:0648

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Tavis Ormandy - Gentoo Linux Auditing Team

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-08-04 | Disagree?

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