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Category:  Application (Generic)  >  LibTIFF Vendors:  libtiff.org
LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service
SecurityTracker Alert ID:  1011724
SecurityTracker URL:  http://securitytracker.com/id?1011724
CVE Reference:  CAN-2004-0804   (Links to External Site)
Date:  Oct 15 2004
Impact:  Denial of service via network
Version(s): 3.6.1
Description:  A vulnerability was reported in LibTIFF. A remote user can cause an application using LibTIFF to crash.

Debian reported that Matthias Clasen discovered a division by zero error through an integer overflow. The flaw resides in 'libtiff/tif_dirread.c'.

Impact:  A remote user can cause the target application to crash.
Solution:  No upstream solution was available at the time of this entry.
Vendor URL:  www.libtiff.org/ (Links to External Site)
Cause:  Boundary error
Underlying OS:  Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)

Message History:   This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
Oct 15 2004 (Debian Issues Fix) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service   (joey@infodrom.org (Martin Schulze))
Debian has released a fix.
Oct 20 2004 (Mandrake Issues Fix) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service   (Mandrake Linux Security Team <security@linux-mandrake.com>)
Mandrake has issued a fix.
Oct 21 2004 (Mandrake Issues Fix for wxGTK2) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service   (Mandrake Linux Security Team <security@linux-mandrake.com>)
Mandrake has released a fix for GTK2, which includes libtiff.
Oct 23 2004 (Red Hat Issues Fix) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service   (bugzilla@redhat.com)
Red Hat has released a fix for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.
Nov 1 2004 (Slackware Issues Fix) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service   (Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>)
Slackware has released a fix.
Nov 8 2004 (Conectiva Issues Fix) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service   (Conectiva Updates <secure@conectiva.com.br>)
Conectiva has released a fix.
Dec 2 2004 (Apple Issues Fix for AppKit) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service
Apple has issued a fix for AppKit, which is affected by the libtiff vulnerability.
Dec 6 2004 (Gentoo Issues Fix for PDFlib) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service   (Luke Macken <lewk@gentoo.org>)
Gentoo has released a fix for PDFlib.
Dec 9 2004 (KDE Issues Fix for kfax) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service   (Dirk Mueller <mueller@kde.org>)
KDE issues fix for KDE kfax, which is affected by the LibTIFF vulnerability.
Dec 19 2004 (Gentoo Describes Workaround for KDE kfax) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service   (Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@gentoo.org>)
Gentoo has described a workaround for KDE kfax.
Apr 14 2005 (Red Hat Issues Fix for KDE graphics) LibTIFF Integer Overflow in 'tif_dirread' Lets Remote Users Deny Service   (bugzilla@redhat.com)
Red Hat has released a fix for KDE graphics.



 Source Message Contents

Date:  Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:53:05 -0400
Subject:  [none]

 
 
CVE: CAN-2004-0804
 
Debian reported that Matthias Clasen discovered a division by zero error through an 
integer overflow.  The flaw resides in 'libtiff/tif_dirread.c'
 


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