Apple iPhone TIFF Image memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Apple iPhone. Affected is an unknown function of the component TIFF Image Handler. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2007-5450. Moreover, an exploit is present. The affected component should be disabled.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Apple iPhone (Smartphone Operating System) (version now known). This affects some unknown processing of the component TIFF Image Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Safari on the Apple iPod touch (aka iTouch) and iPhone 1.1.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), and enable filesystem browsing by the local user, via a certain TIFF file.

The weakness was disclosed 10/12/2007 by Niacin (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at toc2rta.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2007-5450 since 10/14/2007. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at toc2rta.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (37186), Exploit-DB (4522), OSVDB (38527†) and Secunia (SA27213†). Further details are available at computerworld.com. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Recommended: Disable
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Patch: toc2rta.com

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10/12/2007 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: toc2rta.com
Researcher: Niacin
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2007-5450 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-5450
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-3387
X-Force: 37186 - Apple iPod touch and Apple iPhone TIFF images code execution, High Risk
Secunia: 27213 - Apple iPod touch / iPhone TIFF Image Processing Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 38527 - Apple iTouch / iPhone TIFF Image Handling Privilege Escalation
Vupen: ADV-2007-3485

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 10/18/2007 09:49
Updated: 10/07/2024 16:23
Changes: 10/18/2007 09:49 (55), 03/25/2019 15:26 (18), 10/07/2024 16:23 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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