NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.0.3-35.38.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.25% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-LIBTIFFDEBUGINFO-2974743
  • published5 Aug 2022
  • disclosed11 Feb 2022

Introduced: 11 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-0562  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 libtiff-debuginfo to version 0:4.0.3-35.38.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2022-1625.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-debuginfo package and not the libtiff-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFReadDirectory() in tif_dirread.c in libtiff versions from 4.0 to 4.3.0 could lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, a fix is available with commit 561599c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1