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Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference Affecting tiff package, versions <4.2.0-1+deb11u3

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.09% (36th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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SUSE
7.5 high
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Red Hat
6.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-TIFF-3012399
  • published 1 Sep 2022
  • disclosed 31 Aug 2022
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Introduced: 31 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-2521 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-763 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 tiff to version 4.2.0-1+deb11u3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.