ALAS-2023-2346

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-6277  

An out-of-memory flaw was found in libtiff. Passing a crafted tiff file to TIFFOpen() API may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a craft input with size smaller than 379 KB. (CVE-2023-6277)

ALAS-2023-2346


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2346
Advisory Release Date: 2023-11-29 22:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-12-04 21:43 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

An out-of-memory flaw was found in libtiff. Passing a crafted tiff file to TIFFOpen() API may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a craft input with size smaller than 379 KB. (CVE-2023-6277)


Affected Packages:

compat-libtiff3


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update compat-libtiff3 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.amzn2.0.4.aarch64
    compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.amzn2.0.4.aarch64

i686:
    compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.amzn2.0.4.i686
    compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.amzn2.0.4.i686

src:
    compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.amzn2.0.4.src

x86_64:
    compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.amzn2.0.4.x86_64
    compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.amzn2.0.4.x86_64