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tools/tiffcrop.c:3142 - Heap Buffer overflow in extractContigSamples32bits

Summary -(Summarize the bug encountered concisely)

There is a Heap buffer overflow in /tools/tiffcrop.c:3142 in extractContigSamples32bits function

Version - (libtiff version)

root@ubuntu:/home/libtiff/tools# ./tiffcrop -v
Library Release: LIBTIFF, Version 4.3.0
Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler
Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Tiffcrop version: 2.4, last updated: 12-13-2010
Tiffcp code: Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler
           : Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc
Tiffcrop additions: Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Richard Nolde

Steps to reproduce - (How one can reproduce the issue - this is very important)

Clone the latest source from the gitlab repository - git clone https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff.git
cd libtiff

compile the source using the following command :  

CC=gcc CXX=g++ CFLAGS="-ggdb -fsanitize=address,undefined -fno-sanitize-recover=all" CXXFLAGS="-ggdb -fsanitize=address,undefined -fno-sanitize-recover=all" LDFLAGS="-fsanitize=address,undefined -fno-sanitize-recover=all -lm" ./configure --disable-shared

Reproduce the crash with the following commmand :  

./tiffcrop -i -E l -H 10 -V 10 -S 8:4 -R 270 poc.tif a.tif

Platform - (Operating system, architecture, compiler details)

gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

uname -r
5.13.0-28-generic

uname -a
Linux ubuntu 5.13.0-28-generic #31~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 19 14:08:10 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal
  • Address Sanitizer Logs ( ASAN )
TIFFReadDirectoryCheckOrder: Warning, Invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 57568 (0xe0e0) encountered.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 1028 (0x404) encountered.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 1 (0x1) encountered.
TIFFFetchNormalTag: Warning, ASCII value for tag "Model" does not end in null byte.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, TIFF directory is missing required "StripByteCounts" field, calculating from imagelength.
TIFFAdvanceDirectory: Error fetching directory count.
loadImage: Image lacks Photometric interpretation tag.
=================================================================
==2014==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x602000000210 at pc 0x55bbcdc5bb9a bp 0x7fff3dbae7c0 sp 0x7fff3dbae7b0
READ of size 4 at 0x602000000210 thread T0
    #0 0x55bbcdc5bb99 in extractContigSamples32bits /home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:3142
    #1 0x55bbcdc70529 in extractContigSamplesToBuffer /home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:3627
    #2 0x55bbcdc70529 in writeBufferToSeparateStrips /home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:1218
    #3 0x55bbcdc7d4b9 in writeSingleSection /home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:7377
    #4 0x55bbcdc3ce20 in writeImageSections /home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:7104
    #5 0x55bbcdc3ce20 in main /home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:2451
    #6 0x7f20439f70b2 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x270b2)
    #7 0x55bbcdc434ed in _start (/home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop+0x324ed)

0x602000000213 is located 0 bytes to the right of 3-byte region [0x602000000210,0x602000000213)
allocated by thread T0 here:
    #0 0x7f2043e3abc8 in malloc (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.5+0x10dbc8)
    #1 0x55bbcdc3d94d in createImageSection /home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:7402
    #2 0x55bbcdc3d94d in writeImageSections /home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:7090
    #3 0x55bbcdc3d94d in main /home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:2451

SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow /home/targets/libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:3142 in extractContigSamples32bits
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
  0x0c047fff7ff0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  0x0c047fff8000: fa fa 00 00 fa fa fd fa fa fa 02 fa fa fa fd fa
  0x0c047fff8010: fa fa fd fa fa fa fd fa fa fa 02 fa fa fa fd fa
  0x0c047fff8020: fa fa fd fa fa fa fd fa fa fa 00 fa fa fa 00 fa
  0x0c047fff8030: fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fa fa fa 00 04
=>0x0c047fff8040: fa fa[03]fa fa fa 02 fa fa fa 02 fa fa fa 06 fa
  0x0c047fff8050: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c047fff8060: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c047fff8070: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c047fff8080: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  0x0c047fff8090: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
  Addressable:           00
  Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 
  Heap left redzone:       fa
  Freed heap region:       fd
  Stack left redzone:      f1
  Stack mid redzone:       f2
  Stack right redzone:     f3
  Stack after return:      f5
  Stack use after scope:   f8
  Global redzone:          f9
  Global init order:       f6
  Poisoned by user:        f7
  Container overflow:      fc
  Array cookie:            ac
  Intra object redzone:    bb
  ASan internal:           fe
  Left alloca redzone:     ca
  Right alloca redzone:    cb
  Shadow gap:              cc
==2014==ABORTING

```[poc.zip](/uploads/4df5ce99cd3cbed76031489ef39f12fb/poc.zip)
Edited by Chintan Shah