NULL pointer dereference in LibTIFF - CVE-2023-2731

Vulnerability identifier: #VU79568

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2731

CWE-ID: CWE-476

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the LZWDecode() function in the libtiff/tif_lzw.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

LibTIFF
Amazon Linux AMI
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
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Basesystem Module
SUSE Package Hub 15
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openEuler
OpenShift Logging
Isolation Segment
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications
SQL Sentry
libtiff-tools (Ubuntu package)
libtiff5 (Ubuntu package)
tiff
libtiff5-32bit
libtiff-devel
tiff-debuginfo
tiff-debugsource
libtiff5-debuginfo-32bit
libtiff5-debuginfo
libtiff5
libtiff5-32bit-debuginfo
libtiff-devel-32bit
libtiff
libtiff-debuginfo
libtiff-debugsource
libtiff-help
libtiff (Red Hat package)
libtiff-doc
libtiff-tools
libtiff-static
libtiff6 (Ubuntu package)
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR)
Storage Resource Manager
Datacap

Install updates from vendor's website.

LibTIFF - update to 4.5.0
OpenShift Logging - update to 5.8.1
SQL Sentry - update to 2024.2
libtiff-tools (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.9, 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.5, 4.5.0-5ubuntu1.1
libtiff5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.9, 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.5
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - addressed in versions 2.7.25, 2.8.16, 2.9.12, 2.10.39
Isolation Segment - addressed in versions 2.11.38, 2.13.23, 3.0.16, 4.0.8
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs - addressed in versions 2.11.44, 2.13.26, 3.0.16, 4.0.8
tiff - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.74.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.35.1
libtiff5-32bit - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.74.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.35.1
libtiff-devel - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.74.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.35.1
tiff-debuginfo - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.74.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.35.1
tiff-debugsource - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.74.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.35.1
libtiff5-debuginfo-32bit - update to 4.0.9-44.74.1
libtiff5-debuginfo - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.74.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.35.1
libtiff5 - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.74.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.35.1
libtiff5-32bit-debuginfo - update to 4.0.9-150000.45.35.1
libtiff-devel-32bit - update to 4.0.9-150000.45.35.1
libtiff - update to 4.3.0-11
libtiff-debuginfo - update to 4.3.0-11
libtiff-devel - update to 4.3.0-11
libtiff-debugsource - update to 4.3.0-11
libtiff-help - update to 4.3.0-11
libtiff - update to 4.4.0-4
libtiff (Red Hat package) - update to 4.4.0-10.el9
libtiff-doc - update to 4.4.0-10.0.1
libtiff-tools - update to 4.4.0-10.0.1
libtiff-static - update to 4.4.0-10.0.1
libtiff-devel - update to 4.4.0-10.0.1
libtiff - update to 4.4.0-10.0.1
libtiff6 (Ubuntu package) - update to 4.5.0-5ubuntu1.1
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR) - update to 4.10.0.3
Storage Resource Manager - update to 4.10.0.3
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications - update to 6.2
Datacap - update to 9.1.9.0.4

• https://github.com/libsdl-org/libtiff/commit/9be22b639ea69e102d3847dca4c53ef025e9527b
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2207635
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/548
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2731
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230703-0009/

• Denial of service in Libtiff
• Ubuntu update for tiff
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris third-party software
• VMware Tanzu products update for LibTIFF
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 update for libtiff
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Linux
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Datacap
• SUSE update for tiff
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Logging Subsystem 5.8 for Red Hat OpenShift
• SUSE update for tiff
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications
• openEuler update for libtiff
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) and Dell Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR)
• SolarWinds SQL Sentry update for third-party components
• Amazon Linux AMI update for libtiff
• Anolis OS update for libtiff