#VU70715 Use of uninitialized resource in LibTIFF - CVE-2022-34266
Published: January 5, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU70715
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34266
CWE-ID: CWE-908
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
LibTIFF
LibTIFF
Software vendor:
LibTIFF
LibTIFF
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an invalid range may be passed as an argument to the memset() function within TIFFFetchStripThing() in tif_dirread.c when processing a malicious TIFF file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted TIFF file, trigger uninitialized usage of resources and perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.