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FreeBSD : tiff -- RLE decoder heap overflows (f6680c03-0bd8-11d9-8a8a-000c41e2cdad)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19172

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Chris Evans discovered several heap buffer overflows in libtiff's RLE decoder. These overflows could be triggered by a specially crafted TIFF image file, resulting in an application crash and possibly arbitrary code execution.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2004-006.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?b5bb9eac

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19172

File Name: freebsd_pkg_f6680c030bd811d98a8a000c41e2cdad.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:fractorama, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gdal, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:iv, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ivtools, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-iv, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-libimg, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-tiff, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:paraview, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pdflib, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pdflib-perl, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:tiff, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 10/13/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/13/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0803

CERT: 948752