Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <4.0.9-5.14.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.76% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFFDEVEL-2759760
  • published 14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 23 Oct 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff-devel to version 4.0.9-5.14.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c, which can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.