Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (19th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFDEVEL-3047955
- published 14 Oct 2022
- disclosed 29 Aug 2022
Introduced: 29 Aug 2022
CVE-2022-2953 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7
libtiff-devel
.
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.
LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in extractImageSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:6905, 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 48d6ece8.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2953
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0095
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0302
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/48d6ece8389b01129e7d357f0985c8f938ce3da3
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/414
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2953.json
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221014-0008/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333