National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1544

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in libTIFF before 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TIFF file with a malformed BitsPerSample tag.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of libtiff as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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External Source: XF

Name: libtiff-bitspersample-bo(20533)

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/20533

External Source: MISC

Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91584

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91584

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200505-07

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-07.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 15320

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/15320

External Source: MISC

Name: http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=843

Hyperlink:http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=843

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-130-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-130-1

External Source: BID

Name: 13585

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13585

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 16350

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/16350

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:042

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:042

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-755

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-755

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1013944

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1013944

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 18943

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18943

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 18289

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18289

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 16872

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16872

External Source: SCO

Name: SCOSA-2005.34

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.34/SCOSA-2005.34.txt

External Source: SCO

Name: SCOSA-2006.3

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.3/SCOSA-2006.3.txt