NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff-debugsource package, versions <0:4.0.9-23.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-LIBTIFFDEBUGSOURCE-3197770
  • published5 Jan 2023
  • 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 Rocky-Linux:8 libtiff-debugsource to version 0:4.0.9-23.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2022:7585.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-debugsource package and not the libtiff-debugsource package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 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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