Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference Affecting libtiff5-32bit package, versions <4.0.9-150000.45.16.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFF532BIT-3059694
  • published 22 Oct 2022
  • disclosed 21 Oct 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff5-32bit to version 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff5-32bit package and not the libtiff5-32bit package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

It was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1 that there is an invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131 called by tiffcrop.c:2522 that can cause a program crash and denial of service while processing crafted input.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

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

7.5 high
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Red Hat

6.5 medium