NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff-tools package, versions <0:4.0.9-23.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-LIBTIFFTOOLS-2401392
  • published15 Feb 2022
  • disclosed11 Feb 2022

Introduced: 11 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-0561  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:8 libtiff-tools to version 0:4.0.9-23.el8 or higher.

NVD Description

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

Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFFetchStripThing() in tif_dirread.c in libtiff versions from 3.9.0 to 4.3.0 could lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit eecb0712.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1