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Mageia 8 MGASA-2023-0038 Moderate: LibTIFF Buffer Overflow Exploit

mageia
Calendar Grey February 7, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
LibTIFF version 4.5.0 encountered a critical heap overflow vulnerability due to specially crafted TIFF files. Ensure you update now to mitigate this risk and secure your systems.
processCropSelections in tools/tiffcrop.c in LibTIFF through 4.5.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow (e.g., "WRITE of size 307203") via a crafted TIFF image

Summary

processCropSelections in tools/tiffcrop.c in LibTIFF through 4.5.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow (e.g., "WRITE of size 307203") via a crafted TIFF image. (CVE-2022-48281)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31467

- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2023-January/013560.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48281

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow image processing libtiff mageia heap-based

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libtiff-4.2.0-1.13.mga8

Publication date: 07 Feb 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0038.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-48281

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow image processing libtiff mageia heap-based

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