CVE-2011-2896

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-08-10
Bugzilla:
727800: CVE-2011-2896 David Koblas' GIF decoder LZW decoder buffer overflow

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The LZW decompressor in the LWZReadByte function in giftoppm.c in the David Koblas GIF decoder in PBMPLUS, as used in the gif_read_lzw function in filter/image-gif.c in CUPS before 1.4.7, the LZWReadByte function in plug-ins/common/file-gif-load.c in GIMP 2.6.11 and earlier, the LZWReadByte function in img/gifread.c in XPCE in SWI-Prolog 5.10.4 and earlier, and other products, does not properly handle code words that are absent from the decompression table when encountered, which allows remote attackers to trigger an infinite loop or a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via a crafted compressed stream, a related issue to CVE-2006-1168 and CVE-2011-2895.

Find out more about CVE-2011-2896 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Vulnerable. This issue affects the versions of cups as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact for the cups package. A future update may address this issue in the cups package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (gimp) RHSA-2012:1181 2012-08-20
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (gimp) RHSA-2012:1180 2012-08-20
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (cups) RHSA-2011:1635 2011-12-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (cups) RHSA-2012:0302 2012-02-21

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gd Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ocaml Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 pl Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tk Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gtk2 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gdk-pixbuf Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gd Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php53 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gtk2 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 tk Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 php Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 tk Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 gd Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 gimp Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 gtk2 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 gdk-pixbuf Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 cups Will not fix

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