National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0163

Overview

Integer overflow in the TIFF image decoding routines in CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF image, which is not properly handled by the (1) _cupsImageReadTIFF function in the imagetops filter and (2) imagetoraster filter, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490596

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490596

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-760-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-760-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022070

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022070

External Source: BID

Name: 34571

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34571

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090417 rPSA-2009-0061-1 cups

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/502750/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:0429

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0429.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:0428

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0428.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1773

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1773

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3031

Hyperlink:http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3031

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L582

Hyperlink:http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L582

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0061

Hyperlink:http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0061

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200904-20

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-20.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34852

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34852

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34756

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34756

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34747

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34747

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34722

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34722

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34481

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34481

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11546

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11546

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2009:024

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00011.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11546

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11546