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Sid 1-17215

Message

FILE-PDF Adobe Acrobat Reader libtiff TIFFFetchShortPair stack buffer overflow attempt

Summary

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2, as used in Adobe Reader 9.3.0 and other products, allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, including a large tdircount value in the TIFFFetchShortPair function in tifdirread.c.

Impact

CVSS base score 7.5 CVSS impact score 6.4 CVSS exploitability score 10.0 confidentialityImpact PARTIAL integrityImpact PARTIAL availabilityImpact PARTIAL

CVE-2006-3459:

CVSS base score 7.5

CVSS impact score 6.4

CVSS exploitability score 10.0

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

CVE-2010-0188:

CVSS base score 9.3

CVSS impact score 10.0

CVSS exploitability score 8.6

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

Detailed information

CVE-2006-3459: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2, as used in Adobe Reader 9.3.0 and other products, allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, including a large tdircount value in the TIFFFetchShortPair function in tifdirread.c.

CVE-2010-0188: Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.2.1 and 9.x before 9.3.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Affected systems

  • libtiff libtiff 3.4
  • libtiff libtiff 3.5.1
  • libtiff libtiff 3.5.2
  • libtiff libtiff 3.5.3
  • libtiff libtiff 3.5.4
  • libtiff libtiff 3.5.5
  • libtiff libtiff 3.5.6
  • libtiff libtiff 3.5.7
  • libtiff libtiff 3.6.0
  • libtiff libtiff 3.6.1
  • libtiff libtiff 3.7.0
  • libtiff libtiff 3.7.1
  • libtiff libtiff 3.7.2
  • libtiff libtiff 3.7.3
  • libtiff libtiff 3.7.4
  • libtiff libtiff 3.8.0
  • libtiff libtiff 3.8.1
  • adobe acrobat_reader 8.0
  • adobe acrobat_reader 8.1
  • adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.1
  • adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.2
  • adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.3
  • adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.4
  • adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.5
  • adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.6
  • adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.7
  • adobe acrobat_reader 9.0
  • adobe acrobat_reader 9.1
  • adobe acrobat_reader 9.1.1
  • adobe acrobat_reader 9.1.2
  • adobe acrobat_reader 9.1.3
  • adobe acrobat_reader 9.2
  • adobe acrobat_reader 9.3

Ease of attack

CVE-2006-3459:

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

CVE-2010-0188:

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

False positives

None known

False negatives

None known

Corrective action

Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

Contributors

  • Talos research team.
  • This document was generated from data supplied by the national vulnerability database, a product of the national institute of standards and technology.
  • For more information see nvd.

Additional References