Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-7555 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix.c in giffix in giflib 5.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) via crafted image and logical screen width fields in a GIF file.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2587.NASL description According to the versions of the giflib package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix.c in giffix in giflib 5.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) via crafted image and logical screen width fields in a GIF file.(CVE-2015-7555) - Heap-based buffer overflow in util/gif2rgb.c in gif2rgb in giflib 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via the background color index in a GIF file.(CVE-2016-3977) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-12-18 plugin id 132122 published 2019-12-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132122 title EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : giflib (EulerOS-SA-2019-2587) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(132122); script_version("1.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/07"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2015-7555", "CVE-2016-3977" ); script_name(english:"EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : giflib (EulerOS-SA-2019-2587)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "According to the versions of the giflib package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix.c in giffix in giflib 5.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) via crafted image and logical screen width fields in a GIF file.(CVE-2015-7555) - Heap-based buffer overflow in util/gif2rgb.c in gif2rgb in giflib 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via the background color index in a GIF file.(CVE-2016-3977) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues."); # https://developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2587 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4cb47163"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected giflib packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/12/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/12/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:giflib"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Huawei Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/EulerOS/release", "Host/EulerOS/rpm-list", "Host/EulerOS/sp"); script_exclude_keys("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^EulerOS") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS"); if (release !~ "^EulerOS release 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0"); sp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/sp"); if (isnull(sp) || sp !~ "^(3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0 SP3"); uvp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version"); if (!empty_or_null(uvp)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0 SP3", "EulerOS UVP " + uvp); if (!get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "EulerOS", cpu); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i686 / x86_64", cpu); flag = 0; pkgs = ["giflib-4.1.6-9.h2"]; foreach (pkg in pkgs) if (rpm_check(release:"EulerOS-2.0", sp:"3", reference:pkg)) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "giflib"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2015-D423B3276F.NASL description Security fix for CVE-2015-7555. 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. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-03-04 plugin id 89422 published 2016-03-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89422 title Fedora 22 : mingw-giflib-5.0.5-4.fc22 (2015-d423b3276f) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2152.NASL description According to the versions of the giflib package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Heap-based buffer overflow in util/gif2rgb.c in gif2rgb in giflib 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via the background color index in a GIF file.(CVE-2016-3977) - Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix.c in giffix in giflib 5.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) via crafted image and logical screen width fields in a GIF file.(CVE-2015-7555) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-11-12 plugin id 130861 published 2019-11-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/130861 title EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : giflib (EulerOS-SA-2019-2152) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-0202-1.NASL description This update for giflib fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-7555: Heap overflow in giffix (bsc#960319) - bsc#949160: Fix a memory leak Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88143 published 2016-01-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88143 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : giflib (SUSE-SU-2016:0202-1) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_90C8385ADC9F11E58FA814DAE9D210B8.NASL description Hans Jerry Illikainen reports : A heap overflow may occur in the giffix utility included in giflib-5.1.1 when processing records of the type `IMAGE_DESC_RECORD_TYPE last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 89014 published 2016-02-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89014 title FreeBSD : giflib -- heap overflow (90c8385a-dc9f-11e5-8fa8-14dae9d210b8) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-118.NASL description This update for giflib fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-7555: Heap overflow in giffix (bsc#960319) - bsc#949160: Fix a memory leak This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-02-03 plugin id 88543 published 2016-02-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88543 title openSUSE Security Update : giflib (openSUSE-2016-118) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-0192-1.NASL description This update for giflib fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-7555: Heap overflow in giffix (bsc#960319) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88141 published 2016-01-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88141 title SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : giflib (SUSE-SU-2016:0192-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-76.NASL description The following patch fixes - a heap overflow in giffix - a memory leak in libgif6 last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-01-26 plugin id 88159 published 2016-01-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88159 title openSUSE Security Update : giflib (openSUSE-2016-76) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-389.NASL description It was discovered that a maliciously crafted GIF can crash the giffix utility which is part of giflib-tools. We recommend that you upgrade your giflib-tools package to version 4.1.6-9+deb6u1 (Debian squeeze LTS). NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2016-01-18 plugin id 87957 published 2016-01-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87957 title Debian DLA-389-1 : giflib security update NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2015-44FB3501CC.NASL description Security fix for CVE-2015-7555. 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. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-03-04 plugin id 89228 published 2016-03-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89228 title Fedora 23 : mingw-giflib-5.0.5-4.fc23 (2015-44fb3501cc) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2498.NASL description According to the versions of the giflib package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - In GIFLIB before 2019-02-16, a malformed GIF file triggers a divide-by-zero exception in the decoder function DGifSlurp in dgif_lib.c if the height field of the ImageSize data structure is equal to zero.(CVE-2019-15133) - Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix.c in giffix in giflib 5.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) via crafted image and logical screen width fields in a GIF file.(CVE-2015-7555) - Heap-based buffer overflow in util/gif2rgb.c in gif2rgb in giflib 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via the background color index in a GIF file.(CVE-2016-3977) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-12-04 plugin id 131651 published 2019-12-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/131651 title EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : giflib (EulerOS-SA-2019-2498) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-72.NASL description This update for giflib fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-7555: Heap overflow in giffix (bsc#960319) - bsc#949160: Fix a memory leak last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-01-25 plugin id 88139 published 2016-01-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88139 title openSUSE Security Update : giflib (openSUSE-2016-72)
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Dec/83
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135034/giflib-5.1.1-Heap-Overflow.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174876.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035331
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023474
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81697
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537171/100/0/threaded