Tony Cook Imager JPEG and TGA Images Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:17415

Info

Tony Cook Imager JPEG and TGA Images Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 17415
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE: CVE-2006-0053
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 07 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 10 2006 06:42PM
Credit: Kjetil Kjernsmo <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Tony Cook Imager 0.49
Tony Cook Imager 0.48
Tony Cook Imager 0.47
Tony Cook Imager 0.45
Tony Cook Imager 0.43
Tony Cook Imager 0.42
Tony Cook Imager 0.41
Debian Linux 3.1 sparc
Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
Debian Linux 3.1 mips
Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
Debian Linux 3.1 arm
Debian Linux 3.1 amd64
Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
Debian Linux 3.1
Not Vulnerable: Tony Cook Imager 0.50

Discussion

Tony Cook Imager JPEG and TGA Images Denial Of Service Vulnerability

The Perl Imager module is susceptible to a denial-of-service vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the software to properly handle unexpected image data.

Malformed image files may cause a crash in applications that use the affected Perl module, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

Exploit / POC

Tony Cook Imager JPEG and TGA Images Denial Of Service Vulnerability

An attacker uses standard image-creation utilities to create images sufficient to exploit this issue.

Sample Perl code sufficient to demonstrate this issue is available:

perl -MImager -e 'my $im = Imager->new(xsize => 100, ysize=>100, channels => 4); $im->write(data=>\$foo, type=>"jpeg")'

Solution / Fix

Tony Cook Imager JPEG and TGA Images Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Version 0.50 of Imager is available to address this issue.

Please see the referenced vendor advisories for further information on obtaining and applying fixes.


Tony Cook Imager 0.48

Tony Cook Imager 0.43

Tony Cook Imager 0.42

Tony Cook Imager 0.45

Tony Cook Imager 0.41

Tony Cook Imager 0.47

References

Tony Cook Imager JPEG and TGA Images Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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