Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tiff package, versions <4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-3058781
  • published22 Oct 2022
  • disclosed21 Oct 2022

Introduced: 21 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-3598  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 tiff to version 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u5 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted24bits in tools/tiffcrop.c:3604, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit cfbb883b.

CVSS Scores

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