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Ubuntu: USN-5421-1 (CVE-2022-0561): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5421-1 (CVE-2022-0561): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/11/2022
Created
05/18/2022
Added
05/16/2022
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFFetchStripThing() in tif_dirread.c in libtiff versions from 3.9.0 to 4.3.0 could lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit eecb0712.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff-tools
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff5

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