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Mageia: MGASA-2022-0410 Moderate: libtiff Memory Issues and Threats

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia's recent libtiff update tackles severe remote threats, averting system crashes and data breaches due to malicious inputs.
There is a double free or corruption in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8839 found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1

Summary

There is a double free or corruption in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8839 found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1. (CVE-2022-2519)
A flaw was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1. There is a sysmalloc assertion fail in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8621 that can cause program crash when reading a crafted input. (CVE-2022-2520)
It was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1 that there is an invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131 called by tiffcrop.c:2522 that can cause a program crash and denial of service while processing crafted input. (CVE-2022-2521)
Multiple heap buffer overflows in tiffcrop.c utility in libtiff library Version 4.4.0 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-2022-3570)
LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted24bits in tools/tiffcrop.c:3604, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30999

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- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5705-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2519

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2520

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2521

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3570

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3598

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service threat memory issue libtiff program crash Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libtiff-4.2.0-1.9.mga8

Publication date: 08 Nov 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0410.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-2519, CVE-2022-2520, CVE-2022-2521, CVE-2022-3570, CVE-2022-3598

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service threat memory issue libtiff program crash Mageia

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