National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2327
Original release date:08/27/2008
Last revised:08/07/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple buffer underflows in the (1) LZWDecode, (2) LZWDecodeCompat, and (3) LZWDecodeVector functions in tif_lzw.c in the LZW decoder in LibTIFF 3.8.2 and earlier allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF file, related to improper handling of the CODE_CLEAR code.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-260A
Name: TA08-260A
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1632
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7388
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7370
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458674
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2143
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0017.html
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-639-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020750
External Source: BID
Name: 30832
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081031 VMSA-2008-0017 Updated ESX packages for libxml2, ucd-snmp, libtiff
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080905 rPSA-2008-0268-1 libtiff
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0863
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0848
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0847
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:184
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3232
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3107
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2971
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2776
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2584
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2438
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3318
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3298
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3276
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 265030
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200809-07
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/DTSA-160-1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/DSA-1632-1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-2327
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32756
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31982
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31882
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31838
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31698
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31670
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31668
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31623
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31610
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:018
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2008-11-20
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2008-09-15
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2008-11-13
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234080
