Out-of-Bounds Affecting tiff package, versions <4.2.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-TIFF-8486304
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed9 Mar 2021

Introduced: 9 Mar 2021

CVE-2020-35522  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 tiff to version 4.2.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

In LibTIFF, there is a memory malloc failure in tif_pixarlog.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to an abort, resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

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