vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-2521: Security patch for libtiff (ALAS-2023-2055)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 31, 2022
Added
Jun 6, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

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Title
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