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Mageia 8 Update: MGASA-2022-0424 Addresses LibTIFF Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
A recent update for Mgasa 2022-0424 resolves critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities in libtiff, preventing potential exploitation that could lead to service interruptions.
LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in writeSingleSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:7345, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file

Summary

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in writeSingleSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:7345, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. (CVE-2022-3599)
LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemset in libtiff/tif_unix.c:340 when called from processCropSelections, tools/tiffcrop.c:7619, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. (CVE-2022-3626)
LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemcpy in libtiff/tif_unix.c:346 when called from extractImageSection, tools/tiffcrop.c:6860, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. (CVE-2022-3627)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31091

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5714-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3599

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3626

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3627

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity issue denial-of-service CVE issue LibTIFF Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libtiff-4.2.0-1.10.mga8

Severity
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Critical

Publication date: 13 Nov 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0424.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-3599, CVE-2022-3626, CVE-2022-3627

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity issue denial-of-service CVE issue LibTIFF Mageia

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