Resource Exhaustion Affecting tiff package, versions <4.6.0-r1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-TIFF-6114725
  • published 11 Dec 2023
  • disclosed 24 Nov 2023

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard tiff to version 4.6.0-r1 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 Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

An out-of-memory flaw was found in libtiff. Passing a crafted tiff file to TIFFOpen() API may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a craft input with size smaller than 379 KB.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

6.5 medium