Rule

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Sid
20295

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in libtiff.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. 

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Detailed Information:
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 tdir_count value in the TIFFFetchShortPair function in tif_dirread.c.

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Affected Systems:
libtiff libtiff 3.4
libtiff libtiff 3.4
libtiff libtiff 3.4
libtiff libtiff 3.4
libtiff libtiff 3.4
libtiff libtiff 3.4
libtiff libtiff 3.4
libtiff libtiff 3.4
libtiff libtiff 3.4
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 3.5.7
libtiff libtiff 3.5.7
libtiff libtiff 3.5.7
libtiff libtiff 3.5.7
libtiff libtiff 3.6.0
libtiff libtiff 3.6.0
libtiff libtiff 3.6.1
libtiff libtiff 3.7.0
libtiff libtiff 3.7.0
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

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability 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 http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2006-3459:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2006-3459
  
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