NULL Pointer Dereference 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
    0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFF5-2754004
  • 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.

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c that will lead to a denial of service attack, as demonstrated by tiffset.