NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <0:4.0.3-32.el7


medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.33% (71st percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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SUSE
5.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFDEVEL-1511487
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 24 Feb 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 libtiff-devel to version 0:4.0.3-32.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2053.

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:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

A NULL Pointer Dereference occurs in the function TIFFPrintDirectory in tif_print.c in LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4beta, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8 and 4.0.9 when using the tiffinfo tool to print crafted TIFF information, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013. (This affects an earlier part of the TIFFPrintDirectory function that was not addressed by the CVE-2017-18013 patch.)