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Mageia 8: MGASA-2022-0046 Critical: LibTIFF Out-Of-Bounds Read

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
LibTIFF version 4.3.0 addressed a severe out-of-bounds read vulnerability identified as CVE-2022-22844 in Mageia 8.
LibTIFF 4.3.0 has an out-of-bounds read in _TIFFmemcpy in tif_unix.c in certain situations involving a custom tag and 0x0200 as the second word of the DE field

Summary

LibTIFF 4.3.0 has an out-of-bounds read in _TIFFmemcpy in tif_unix.c in certain situations involving a custom tag and 0x0200 as the second word of the DE field. (CVE-2022-22844)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29976

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/BKCT37QZMPMOV5FFWOTHMMQRUQ2AIX6C/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-22844

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical software update libtiff out-of-bounds read Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libtiff-4.2.0-1.1.mga8

Severity
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Critical

Publication date: 02 Feb 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0046.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-22844

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical software update libtiff out-of-bounds read Mageia

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