National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1586

Overview

ImageIO in Apple iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.1 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and device reset) via a crafted TIFF image.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/19/2009)

Red Hat does not consider this libTIFF bug to be a security issue.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021270

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021270

External Source: BID

Name: 32394

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32394

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3232

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/3232

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3318

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3318

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32756

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32756

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 50023

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/50023

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:004

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2008-11-20

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Nov/msg00002.html