ALAS-2023-1846

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-3316  

A NULL pointer dereference in TIFFClose() is caused by a failure to open an output file (non-existent path or a path that requires permissions like /dev/null) while specifying zones. (CVE-2023-3316)

ALAS-2023-1846


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1846
Advisory Release Date: 2023-09-27 22:15 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-10-06 00:52 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A NULL pointer dereference in TIFFClose() is caused by a failure to open an output file (non-existent path or a path that requires permissions like /dev/null) while specifying zones. (CVE-2023-3316)


Affected Packages:

libtiff


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

New Packages:
i686:
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.46.amzn1.i686
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.46.amzn1.i686
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.46.amzn1.i686
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.46.amzn1.i686

src:
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.46.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.46.amzn1.x86_64
    libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.46.amzn1.x86_64
    libtiff-4.0.3-35.46.amzn1.x86_64
    libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.46.amzn1.x86_64