NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff5 package, versions <4.0.9-150000.45.16.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFF5-3059447
  • published22 Oct 2022
  • disclosed21 Oct 2022

Introduced: 21 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-0561  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff5 to version 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1 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.

Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFFetchStripThing() in tif_dirread.c in libtiff versions from 3.9.0 to 4.3.0 could lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit eecb0712.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1