Out-of-bounds Read 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
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBTIFFDEVEL-5574643
  • published20 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Jan 2022

Introduced: 4 Jan 2022

CVE-2022-22844  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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.

LibTIFF 4.3.0 has an out-of-bounds read in _TIFFmemcpy in tif_unix.c in certain situations involving a custom tag and 0x0200 as the second word of the DE field.

CVSS Scores

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