Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-3621 - Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in Libtiff

047910
CVSS 6.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
libtiff
CWE-125
nessus

Summary

The LZWEncode function in tif_lzw.c in the bmp2tiff tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier, when the "-c lzw" option is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) via a crafted BMP image.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Overread Buffers
    An adversary attacks a target by providing input that causes an application to read beyond the boundary of a defined buffer. This typically occurs when a value influencing where to start or stop reading is set to reflect positions outside of the valid memory location of the buffer. This type of attack may result in exposure of sensitive information, a system crash, or arbitrary code execution.

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2018-3879-1.NASL
    descriptionThis update for tiff fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2018-18661: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in the function LZWDecode in the file tif_lzw.c (bsc#1113672). CVE-2018-12900: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in the cpSeparateBufToContigBuf (bsc#1099257). CVE-2017-9147: Fixed invalid read in the _TIFFVGetField function in tif_dir.c, that allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS via acrafted TIFF file (bsc#1040322). CVE-2017-9117: Fixed BMP images processing that was verified without biWidth and biHeight values (bsc#1040080). CVE-2017-17942: Fixed issue in the function PackBitsEncode that could have led to a heap overflow and caused a DoS (bsc#1074186). CVE-2016-9273: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow issue (bsc#1010163). CVE-2016-5319: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in PackBitsEncode (bsc#983440). CVE-2016-3621: Fixed out-of-bounds read in the bmp2tiff tool (lzw packing) (bsc#974448). CVE-2016-3620: Fixed out-of-bounds read in the bmp2tiff tool (zip packing) (bsc#974447) CVE-2016-3619: Fixed out-of-bounds read in the bmp2tiff tool (none packing) (bsc#974446) CVE-2015-8870: Fixed integer overflow in tools/bmp2tiff.c that allowed remote attackers to causea DOS (bsc#1014461). Non-security issues fixed: asan_build: build ASAN included debug_build: build more suitable for debugging 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id119143
    published2018-11-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119143
    titleSUSE SLES11 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2018:3879-1)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2018:3879-1.
    # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(119143);
      script_version("1.3");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/10 13:51:49");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8870", "CVE-2016-3619", "CVE-2016-3620", "CVE-2016-3621", "CVE-2016-5319", "CVE-2016-9273", "CVE-2017-17942", "CVE-2017-9117", "CVE-2017-9147", "CVE-2018-12900", "CVE-2018-18661");
    
      script_name(english:"SUSE SLES11 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2018:3879-1)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "This update for tiff fixes the following issues :
    
    Security issues fixed :
    
    CVE-2018-18661: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in the function
    LZWDecode in the file tif_lzw.c (bsc#1113672).
    
    CVE-2018-12900: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in the
    cpSeparateBufToContigBuf (bsc#1099257).
    
    CVE-2017-9147: Fixed invalid read in the _TIFFVGetField function in
    tif_dir.c, that allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS via acrafted
    TIFF file (bsc#1040322).
    
    CVE-2017-9117: Fixed BMP images processing that was verified without
    biWidth and biHeight values (bsc#1040080).
    
    CVE-2017-17942: Fixed issue in the function PackBitsEncode that could
    have led to a heap overflow and caused a DoS (bsc#1074186).
    
    CVE-2016-9273: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow issue (bsc#1010163).
    
    CVE-2016-5319: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in PackBitsEncode
    (bsc#983440).
    
    CVE-2016-3621: Fixed out-of-bounds read in the bmp2tiff tool (lzw
    packing) (bsc#974448).
    
    CVE-2016-3620: Fixed out-of-bounds read in the bmp2tiff tool (zip
    packing) (bsc#974447)
    
    CVE-2016-3619: Fixed out-of-bounds read in the bmp2tiff tool (none
    packing) (bsc#974446)
    
    CVE-2015-8870: Fixed integer overflow in tools/bmp2tiff.c that allowed
    remote attackers to causea DOS (bsc#1014461).
    
    Non-security issues fixed: asan_build: build ASAN included
    
    debug_build: build more suitable for debugging
    
    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."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010163"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014461"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040080"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040322"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074186"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099257"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113672"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974446"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974447"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974448"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=983440"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8870/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3619/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3620/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3621/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5319/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9273/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17942/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9117/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9147/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12900/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18661/"
      );
      # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20183879-1/
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e798c7ce"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:
    "To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended
    installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.
    
    Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
    
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t
    patch sdksp4-tiff-13878=1
    
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch
    slessp4-tiff-13878=1
    
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch
    dbgsp4-tiff-13878=1"
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtiff3");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tiff");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/10/03");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/11/23");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/11/26");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");
    
      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/SuSE/release");
    if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
    os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES11)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLES11", "SUSE " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu);
    
    sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
    if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0";
    if (os_ver == "SLES11" && (! preg(pattern:"^(4)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES11 SP4", os_ver + " SP" + sp);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libtiff3-32bit-3.8.2-141.169.22.1")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libtiff3-32bit-3.8.2-141.169.22.1")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"libtiff3-3.8.2-141.169.22.1")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:"4", reference:"tiff-3.8.2-141.169.22.1")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_hole(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "tiff");
    }
    
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-693.NASL
    descriptionVersion 4.0.2-6+deb7u7 introduced changes that resulted in libtiff being unable to write out tiff files when the compression scheme in use relies on codec-specific TIFF tags embedded in the image. This problem manifested itself with errors like those: $ tiffcp -r 16 -c jpeg sample.tif out.tif _TIFFVGetField: out.tif: Invalid tag
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2016-11-03
    plugin id94474
    published2016-11-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94474
    titleDebian DLA-693-2 : tiff regression update
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-693-2. The text
    # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(94474);
      script_version("2.8");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8128", "CVE-2015-7554", "CVE-2015-8668", "CVE-2016-3186", "CVE-2016-3619", "CVE-2016-3620", "CVE-2016-3621", "CVE-2016-3631", "CVE-2016-3632", "CVE-2016-3633", "CVE-2016-3634", "CVE-2016-5102", "CVE-2016-5318", "CVE-2016-5319", "CVE-2016-5652", "CVE-2016-6223", "CVE-2016-8331");
      script_bugtraq_id(72326);
    
      script_name(english:"Debian DLA-693-2 : tiff regression update");
      script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Version 4.0.2-6+deb7u7 introduced changes that resulted in libtiff
    being unable to write out tiff files when the compression scheme in
    use relies on codec-specific TIFF tags embedded in the image.
    
    This problem manifested itself with errors like those: $ tiffcp -r 16
    -c jpeg sample.tif out.tif _TIFFVGetField: out.tif: Invalid tag
    'Predictor' (not supported by codec). _TIFFVGetField: out.tif: Invalid
    tag 'BadFaxLines' (not supported by codec). tiffcp:
    tif_dirwrite.c:687: TIFFWriteDirectorySec: Assertion `0' failed.
    
    For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
    4.0.2-6+deb7u10.
    
    We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.
    
    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."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/02/msg00005.html"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/tiff"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:"exploit_available", value:"false");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-doc");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-opengl");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff-tools");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff5");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff5-alt-dev");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiff5-dev");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtiffxx5");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/01/08");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/02/07");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/03");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("debian_package.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libtiff-doc", reference:"4.0.2-6+deb7u10")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libtiff-opengl", reference:"4.0.2-6+deb7u10")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libtiff-tools", reference:"4.0.2-6+deb7u10")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libtiff5", reference:"4.0.2-6+deb7u10")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libtiff5-alt-dev", reference:"4.0.2-6+deb7u10")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libtiff5-dev", reference:"4.0.2-6+deb7u10")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libtiffxx5", reference:"4.0.2-6+deb7u10")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
      else security_hole(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
    
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201701-16.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-16 (libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libTIFF. Please review the CVE identifier and bug reports referenced for details. Impact : A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted image file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96373
    published2017-01-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96373
    titleGLSA-201701-16 : libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities