Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Medium ALAS2023-2023-329 1 CVE

Moderate: libtiff security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 31, 2023 · Updated Sep 7, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-2731: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in Libtiff's LZWDecode() function in the libtiff/tif_lzw.c file. This flaw allows a local attacker to craft specific input data that can cause the program to dereference a NULL pointer when decompressing a TIFF format file, resulting in a program crash or denial of service.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-debuginfo 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-debugsource 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-devel 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-static 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-tools 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2023 libtiff-tools-debuginfo 0:4.4.0-4.amzn2023.0.13

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-2731.html