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

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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
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 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.

Solution(s)

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

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