2017.08.02 15:00 "[Tiff] Error handling in Read/Write/Seek", by Nicolas RUFF

2017.08.03 15:04 "Re: [Tiff] Error handling in Read/Write/Seek", by Nicolas RUFF

It seems best to block any negative size values from being passed into these functions in the first place. Libtiff is not in control of the I/O functions, so it is best to assure that they are not passed illegal values which might cause I/O implementations to do very bad things.

Not sure to understand what you mean here. Here are all call locations for SeekOK():

tif_dir.c: 2 times
tif_read.c: 4 times
tif_write.c: 1 time
tif_dirread.c: 3 times
tif_dirwrite.c: 9 times

Do you suggest to add an extra check for (off<0) before each call? If yes, I can prepare a patch.

Also, is there any chance that TIFFSeekFile() could legitimately be called with off<0 and whence=SEEK_CUR? I mean, is there any reason to seek backward in a TIFF file? Looking at the code, the only calls to TIFFSeekFile(whence=SEEK_CUR) take (dircount*object_size) as an offset and should therefore always be positive, but I am not super-familiar with TIFF format(s).

Thank you,

- Nicolas RUFF