SB2019021509 - Fedora 29 update for libtiff
Published: February 15, 2019 Updated: April 24, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7663)
CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an invalid address dereference condition that exists in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagTransferfunction, as defined in the libtiff/tif_dirwrite.c source code file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing a Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) file that submits malicious input and trigger a segmentation fault in the cpSeparateBufToContigBuf function in the tiffcp.c file, resulting in a DoS condition.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.