ALAS2-2022-1891

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-1355   CVE-2022-3970  

A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in Libtiffs' tiffcp.c in main() function. This flaw allows an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF file to the tiffcp tool, triggering a stack buffer overflow issue, possibly corrupting the memory, and causing a crash that leads to a denial of service. (CVE-2022-1355) 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 has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 227500897dfb07fb7d27f7aa570050e62617e3be. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-213549 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3970)

ALAS2-2022-1891


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1891
Advisory Release Date: 2022-12-01 20:31 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-12-06 22:40 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in Libtiffs' tiffcp.c in main() function. This flaw allows an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF file to the tiffcp tool, triggering a stack buffer overflow issue, possibly corrupting the memory, and causing a crash that leads to a denial of service. (CVE-2022-1355)

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 has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 227500897dfb07fb7d27f7aa570050e62617e3be. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-213549 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3970)


Affected Packages:

libtiff


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

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
    libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.aarch64

i686:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.i686
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.i686
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.i686
    libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.i686
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.i686

src:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.src

x86_64:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
    libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.5.x86_64