tiff vulnerability in ports?
Kubilay Kocak
koobs at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 5 15:44:14 UTC 2016
On 5/08/2016 11:35 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 2016/08/05 13:55, alphachi wrote:
>> Please see this link to get more information:
>>
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=418585
>>
>> 2016-08-05 0:23 GMT+08:00 Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> This is perhaps a question for the tiff devs more than anything, but I
>>> noticed that pkg audit has been complaining about libtiff (graphics/tiff)
>>> for some time now.
>>>
>>> FreeBSD's VUXML database says anything before 4.0.7 is affected, but
>>> apparently that version hasn't been released yet (according to
>>> http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/, the latest stable release is still
>>> 4.0.6).
>>>
>>> Anyone know what's going on? Is there a release upcoming to fix this?
>
> Yeah -- this vulnerability:
>
> https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/c17fe91d-4aa6-11e6-a7bd-14dae9d210b8.html
>
> has been in VuXML since 2016-07-15 but there's no indication of a 4.0.7
> release from upstream yet.
>
> Given their approach to fixing the buffer overflow was to delete the
> offending gif2tiff application from the package, perhaps we could simply
> do the same until 4.0.7 comes out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
>
Hi Aleksandr :)
Also:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211405
Please add a comment to that bug to request resolution of the issue.
Alternatively you (and anyone else) can just delete gif2tiff
Unfortunately you are yet one more example of a user that's been left in
the lurch without information or recourse wondering (rightfully) how
they can resolve or mitigate this vulnerability. Our apologies.
Hope that helps.
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