Use After Free Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <0:3.9.4-10.el6_5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.39% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBTIFFDEVEL-1478876
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed1 Aug 2013

Introduced: 1 Aug 2013

CVE-2013-4232  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 libtiff-devel to version 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:0222.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the t2p_readwrite_pdf_image function in tools/tiff2pdf.c in libtiff 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF image.

CVSS Scores

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