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Mageia: 2022-0119 Critical: LibTiff Denial-of-Service Issues

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 8's recent libtiff patch addresses severe denial-of-service and memory safety issues related to TIFF file handling.
Reachable Assertion in tiffcp in libtiff 4.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file

Summary

Reachable Assertion in tiffcp in libtiff 4.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. (CVE-2022-0865)
A heap buffer overflow in ExtractImageSection function in tiffcrop.c in libtiff library Version 4.3.0 allows attacker to trigger unsafe or out of bounds memory access via crafted TIFF image file which could result into application crash, potential information disclosure or any other context-dependent impact. (CVE-2022-0891)
Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFFetchNormalTag () in tif_dirread.c in libtiff versions up to 4.3.0 could lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file. (CVE-2022-0908)
Divide By Zero error in tiffcrop in libtiff 4.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. (CVE-2022-0909)
Out-of-bounds Read error in tiffcp in libtiff 4.3.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. (CVE-2022-0924)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30210

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00076.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0865

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0891

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0908

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0909

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0924

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical denial-of-service memory safety libtiff Mageia CVE-2022-0865

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libtiff-4.2.0-1.3.mga8

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Publication date: 28 Mar 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0119.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-0865, CVE-2022-0891, CVE-2022-0908, CVE-2022-0909, CVE-2022-0924

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical denial-of-service memory safety libtiff Mageia CVE-2022-0865

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