REDHAT-BUG-2142740: Medium severity LibTIFF libtiff vulnerability
Published Nov 15, 2022
·Updated
LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in writeSingleSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:7345, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit e8131125.
References: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/e813112545942107551433d61afd16ac094ff246 https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/398 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-3599.json
Affected Software
1 affected component
LibTIFF libtiff
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Upgrade
Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.
Patch e813112545942107551433d61afd16ac094ff246
Event History
Nov 15, 2022
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·06:34 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software