FreeBSD : tiff -- buffer overflow vulnerability (68222076-010b-11da-bc08-0001020eed82)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19347

Synopsis

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

Description

A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports :

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a stack based buffer overflow in the libTIFF library when reading a TIFF image with a malformed BitsPerSample tag.

Successful exploitation would require the victim to open a specially crafted TIFF image, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19347

File Name: freebsd_pkg_68222076010b11dabc080001020eed82.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 8/1/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

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: 7/30/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1544

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