ALAS2-2023-2055

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-2521  

It was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1 that there is an invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131 called by tiffcrop.c:2522 that can cause a program crash and denial of service while processing crafted input. (CVE-2022-2521)

ALAS2-2023-2055


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2055
Advisory Release Date: 2023-05-25 17:41 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-01 23:37 Pacific
Severity: Low

Issue Overview:

It was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1 that there is an invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131 called by tiffcrop.c:2522 that can cause a program crash and denial of service while processing crafted input. (CVE-2022-2521)


Affected Packages:

libtiff


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

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.aarch64

i686:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.i686
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.i686
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.i686
    libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.i686
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.i686

src:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.src

x86_64:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.6.x86_64