ppm2tiff does not check the return value of the TIFFScanlineSize function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPM image that triggers an integer overflow, a zero-memory allocation, and a heap-based buffer overflow.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has libtiff packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - Buffer overflow in the t2p_write_pdf_string function in tiff2pdf in libtiff 3.8.2 and earlier allows     attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file with a     DocumentName tag that contains UTF-8 characters, which triggers the overflow when a character is sign     extended to an integer that produces more digits than expected in an sprintf call. (CVE-2006-2193)

  - Heap-based buffer overflow in the JPEG decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 allows context-     dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an encoded JPEG     stream that is longer than the scan line size (TiffScanLineSize). (CVE-2006-3460)

  - Heap-based buffer overflow in the PixarLog decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 might allow     context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors. (CVE-2006-3461)

  - Heap-based buffer overflow in the NeXT RLE decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 might allow     context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors involving decoding large RLE     images. (CVE-2006-3462)

  - The EstimateStripByteCounts function in TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 uses a 16-bit unsigned short     when iterating over an unsigned 32-bit value, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial     of service via a large td_nstrips value, which triggers an infinite loop. (CVE-2006-3463)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

  - ppm2tiff does not check the return value of the     TIFFScanlineSize function, which allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly     execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPM image that     triggers an integer overflow, a zero-memory allocation,     and a heap-based buffer overflow. (CVE-2012-4564)

  - Heap-based buffer overflow in the t2p_process_jpeg_strip     function in tiff2pdf in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)     and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF     image file. (CVE-2013-1960)

  - Stack-based buffer overflow in the t2p_write_pdf_page     function in tiff2pdf in libtiff before 4.0.3 allows     remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (application crash) via a crafted image length and     resolution in a TIFF image file. (CVE-2013-1961)

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

  - ppm2tiff does not check the return value of the     TIFFScanlineSize function, which allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly     execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPM image that     triggers an integer overflow, a zero-memory allocation,     and a heap-based buffer overflow. (CVE-2012-4564)

This update of tiff fixed a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability and an integer overflow issue.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201402-21 (libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libTIFF. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted TIFF       file with an application making use of libTIFF, possibly resulting in       execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the       application or a Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

New libtiff packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues.

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF images using the Pixar Log Format encoding. An attacker could create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, could cause an application using libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2012-4447)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff handled DOTRANGE tags. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-5581)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the tiff2pdf tool. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that would cause tiff2pdf to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3401)

A missing return value check flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the ppm2tiff tool. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted PPM (Portable Pixel Map) file that would cause ppm2tiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2012-4564)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2012:1590 :

Updated libtiff packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF images using the Pixar Log Format encoding. An attacker could create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, could cause an application using libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2012-4447)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff handled DOTRANGE tags. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-5581)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the tiff2pdf tool. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that would cause tiff2pdf to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3401)

A missing return value check flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the ppm2tiff tool. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted PPM (Portable Pixel Map) file that would cause ppm2tiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2012-4564)

The CVE-2012-5581, CVE-2012-3401, and CVE-2012-4564 issues were discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

All libtiff users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. All running applications linked against libtiff must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerabilities :

libtiff did not properly convert between signed and unsigned integer values, leading to a buffer overflow. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2012-2088).

Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the tiff2pdf tool. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted TIFF file that would cause tiff2pdf to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2012-2113).

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that the tiff2pdf utility incorrectly handled certain malformed TIFF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges (CVE-2012-3401).

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in libtiff's parsing of files using PixarLog compression could lead to the execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2012-4447).

ppm2tiff does not check the return value of the TIFFScanlineSize function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPM image that triggers an integer overflow, a zero-memory allocation, and a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2012-4564).

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images using the DOTRANGE tag. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges (CVE-2012-5581).

Various memory corruption vulnerabilities have been fixed in libtiff.
CVE-2012-4447 / CVE-2012-4564 / CVE-2012-5581 have been assigned to these issues.

Add upstream patches for CVE-2012-4447, CVE-2012-4564 (note:
CVE-2012-5581 is already fixed in 4.0.3)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

- Update to libtiff 3.9.7 (includes previously-added     security fixes)

    - Add patches for CVE-2012-4447, CVE-2012-4564,       CVE-2012-5581

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF images using the Pixar Log Format encoding. An attacker could create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, could cause an application using libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2012-4447)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff handled DOTRANGE tags. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-5581)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the tiff2pdf tool. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that would cause tiff2pdf to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3401)

A missing return value check flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the ppm2tiff tool. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted PPM (Portable Pixel Map) file that would cause ppm2tiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2012-4564)

All running applications linked against libtiff must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Updated libtiff packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF images using the Pixar Log Format encoding. An attacker could create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, could cause an application using libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2012-4447)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff handled DOTRANGE tags. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application linked against libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-5581)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the tiff2pdf tool. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted TIFF file that would cause tiff2pdf to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3401)

A missing return value check flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the ppm2tiff tool. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted PPM (Portable Pixel Map) file that would cause ppm2tiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2012-4564)

The CVE-2012-5581, CVE-2012-3401, and CVE-2012-4564 issues were discovered by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

All libtiff users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. All running applications linked against libtiff must be restarted for this update to take effect.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1590 advisory.

    The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged     Image File Format (TIFF) files.

    A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed     certain TIFF images using the Pixar Log Format encoding. An attacker could     create a specially-crafted TIFF file that, when opened, could cause an     application using libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code     with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2012-4447)

    A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff handled     DOTRANGE tags. An attacker could use this flaw to create a     specially-crafted TIFF file that, when opened, would cause an application     linked against libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2012-5581)

    A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the tiff2pdf tool. An     attacker could use this flaw to create a specially-crafted TIFF file that     would cause tiff2pdf to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2012-3401)

    A missing return value check flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow,     was found in the ppm2tiff tool. An attacker could use this flaw to create a     specially-crafted PPM (Portable Pixel Map) file that would cause ppm2tiff     to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-4564)

    The CVE-2012-5581, CVE-2012-3401, and CVE-2012-4564 issues were discovered     by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

    All libtiff users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain     backported patches to resolve these issues. All running applications linked     against libtiff must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Multiple vulnerabilities was found and corrected in libtiff :

Heap-based buffer overflow in tif_pixarlog.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF image using the PixarLog Compression format (CVE-2012-4447).

ppm2tiff does not check the return value of the TIFFScanlineSize function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPM image that triggers an integer overflow, a zero-memory allocation, and a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2012-4564).

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

It was discovered that ppm2tiff of the TIFF tools, a set of utilities for TIFF manipulation and conversion, is not properly checking the return value of an internal function used in order to detect integer overflows. As a consequence, ppm2tiff suffers of a heap-based buffer overflow. This allows attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPM image, especially in scenarios in which images are automatically processed.

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images using the PixarLog compression format. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
(CVE-2012-4447)

Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala discovered that the ppm2tiff tool incorrectly handled certain malformed PPM images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PPM image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
(CVE-2012-4564).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
206852	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : libtiff Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2024-0051)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
80681	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : libtiff (cve_2012_4564_design_error1)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	high
80623	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : gimp (cve_2012_4564_design_error)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	medium
74956	openSUSE Security Update : tiff (openSUSE-2013-29)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
72635	GLSA-201402-21 : libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
70499	Slackware 12.1 / 12.2 / 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / current : libtiff (SSA:2013-290-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	high
69637	Amazon Linux AMI : libtiff (ALAS-2012-147)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
68667	Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : libtiff (ELSA-2012-1590)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
66060	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libtiff (MDVSA-2013:046)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
64199	SuSE 11.2 Security Update : libtiff (SAT Patch Number 7216)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
64093	SuSE 10 Security Update : libtiff (ZYPP Patch Number 8419)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
63493	Fedora 18 : libtiff-4.0.3-2.fc18 (2012-20348)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
63363	Fedora 17 : libtiff-3.9.7-1.fc17 (2012-20446)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
63362	Fedora 16 : libtiff-3.9.7-1.fc16 (2012-20404)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
63314	Scientific Linux Security Update : libtiff on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20121218)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
63306	CentOS 5 / 6 : libtiff (CESA-2012:1590)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
63293	RHEL 5 / 6 : libtiff (RHSA-2012:1590)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
63017	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libtiff (MDVSA-2012:174)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
62949	Debian DSA-2575-1 : tiff - heap-based buffer overflow	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
62936	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : tiff vulnerabilities (USN-1631-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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