NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <0:4.4.0-2.el9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBTIFFDEVEL-2881170
  • published15 Mar 2022
  • disclosed11 Mar 2022

Introduced: 11 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-0908  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 libtiff-devel to version 0:4.4.0-2.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:8194.

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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFFetchNormalTag () in tif_dirread.c in libtiff versions up to 4.3.0 could lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file.

CVSS Scores

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