Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference Affecting libtiff package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-LIBTIFF-3012358
- published 31 Aug 2022
- disclosed 22 May 2022
Introduced: 22 May 2022
CVE-2022-2521 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7 libtiff.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff package and not the libtiff package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
It was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1 that there is an invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131 called by tiffcrop.c:2522 that can cause a program crash and denial of service while processing crafted input.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2521
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0095
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0302
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2122799
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/422
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333
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