Improper Clearing of Heap Memory Before Release ('Heap Inspection') Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions *


low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.1% (84th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high
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Red Hat
0 info
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SUSE
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-LIBTIFFDEVEL-1949304
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 4 Jan 2019

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 libtiff-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-devel package and not the libtiff-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The TIFFFdOpen function in tif_unix.c in LibTIFF 4.0.10 has a memory leak, as demonstrated by pal2rgb.