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Medium ALSA-2023:2883 2 CVEs

Moderate: libtiff security update

Published May 16, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Ecosystem: AlmaLinux

Summary

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.

Security Fix(es):

* libtiff: out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemcpy in libtiff/tif_unix.c (CVE-2022-3627)
* libtiff: integer overflow in function TIFFReadRGBATileExt of the file (CVE-2022-3970)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 libtiff 4.0.9-27.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 libtiff-devel 4.0.9-27.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 libtiff-tools 4.0.9-27.el8

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 6.3
    CVE-2022-3970

    LibTIFF tif_getimage.c TIFFReadRGBATileExt integer overflow

    A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function TIFFReadRGBATileExt of the file libtiff/tif_getimage.c. The manipulation leads to integer overflow. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit…

    tiff tiff tiff libtiff Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2022-3627

    LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemcpy in libtiff/tif_unix.c:346 when called from extractImageSection,…

    LibTIFF LibTIFF tiff tiff Debian Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3627
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3970
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2142742
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2148918
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-2883.html