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Ubuntu: USN-5421-1 (CVE-2022-0562): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 11, 2022
Added
May 16, 2022
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFReadDirectory() in tif_dirread.c in libtiff versions from 4.0 to 4.3.0 could lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, a fix is available with commit 561599c.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtiff-toolsubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtiff5ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff-toolsubuntu-upgrade-libtiff5
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