Memory Leak Affecting libtiff5 package, versions <4.0.9-5.27.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.26% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFF5-2752782
  • published 14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 28 Mar 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff5 to version 4.0.9-5.27.5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff5 package and not the libtiff5 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

The TIFFFdOpen function in tif_unix.c in LibTIFF 4.0.10 has a memory leak, as demonstrated by pal2rgb.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High