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[GLSA-200412-17] kfax: Multiple overflows in the included TIFF library

Family:

Gentoo Local Security Checks

Category:

infos

Copyright:

(C) 2004 Michel Arboi

Summary:

kfax: Multiple overflows in the included TIFF library

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Cve_id:

CAN-2004-0803, CAN-2004-0804, CAN-2004-0886

Bugtraq_id:

-

Xrefs:

GLSA:200412-17

Description:

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200412-17
(kfax: Multiple overflows in the included TIFF library)


Than Ngo discovered that kfax contains a private copy of the TIFF
library and is therefore subject to several known vulnerabilities (see
References).

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to view a carefully-crafted
TIFF image file with kfax, which would potentially lead to execution of
arbitrary code with the rights of the user running kfax.

Workaround

The KDE Team recommends to remove the kfax binary as well as the
kfaxpart.la KPart:
rm /usr/kde/3.*/lib/kde3/kfaxpart.la
rm /usr/kde/3.*/bin/kfax
Note: This will render the kfax functionality useless, if kfax
functionality is needed you should upgrade to the KDE 3.3.2 which is
not stable at the time of this writing.

References:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20041209-2.txt
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-11.xml
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0803
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0804
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0886


Solution:
All kfax users should use the workaround as no patches are
available yet.


Risk factor : Medium