ALAS2-2022-1872

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-2867  

A flaw was found in libtiffs tiffcrop utility that has a uint32_t underflow that can lead to an out-of-bounds read and write. This flaw allows an attacker who supplies a crafted file to tiffcrop to cause a crash or, in some cases, further exploitation. (CVE-2022-2867)

ALAS2-2022-1872


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1872
Advisory Release Date: 2022-10-31 19:40 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-11-08 22:20 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2022-2867 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in libtiffs tiffcrop utility that has a uint32_t underflow that can lead to an out-of-bounds read and write. This flaw allows an attacker who supplies a crafted file to tiffcrop to cause a crash or, in some cases, further exploitation. (CVE-2022-2867)


Affected Packages:

libtiff


Issue Correction:
Run yum update libtiff to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.aarch64

i686:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.i686
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.i686
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.i686
    libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.i686
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.i686

src:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.src

x86_64:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.3.x86_64