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Medium ALAS2023-2023-067 5 CVEs

Moderate: libtiff security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 22, 2023

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-2953: LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in extractImageSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:6905, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit 48d6ece8. CVE-2022-2868: libtiff's tiffcrop utility has a improper input validation flaw that can lead to out of bounds read and ultimately cause a crash if an attacker is able to supply a crafted file to tiffcrop. CVE-2022-2521: 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. CVE-2022-2520: A flaw was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1. There is a sysmalloc assertion fail in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8621 that can cause program crash when reading a crafted input. CVE-2022-2519: There is a double free or corruption in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8839 found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-debuginfo 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-debugsource 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-devel 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-static 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-tools 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-tools-debuginfo 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.4

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-2519.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-2520.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-2521.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-2868.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-2953.html