SB2023032203 - Denial of service in LibTIFF
Published: March 22, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023032203
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-4645)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within tools/tiffcp.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted TIFF file to the application using the affected library, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/e813112545942107551433d61afd16ac094ff246
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/277
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-4645.json
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BA6GRCAQ7NR2OK5N44UQRGUJBIYKWJJH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2ZTFA6GGOKFPIQNHDBMXYUR4XUXUJESE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OLM763GGZVVOAXIQXG6YGTYJ5VFYNECQ/