Vulnerability/
REDHAT-BUG-2042603

REDHAT-BUG-2042603: Medium severity tiff vulnerability

Published Jan 19, 2022

Updated

LibTIFF 4.3.0 has an out-of-bounds read in TIFFmemcpy in tifunix.c in certain situations involving a custom tag and 0x0200 as the second word of the DE field.

Reference: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/355

Upstream patch: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/mergerequests/287

Affected Software

1 affected component

LibTIFF libtiff

Event History

Jan 19, 2022

Data Sourced

via Red Hat·07:36 PM

DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Frequently Asked Questions

Which LibTIFF release is specifically identified in this report?

The report identifies LibTIFF 4.3.0. The provided data does not specify which later releases are fixed.

Is an upstream fix available for review or backporting?

Yes. The provided references include upstream merge request 287 as the patch for this issue.

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