RHSA-2023:0095 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libtiff is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.

Security Fix(es):

• LibTiff: DoS from Divide By Zero Error (CVE-2022-2056, CVE-2022-2057, CVE-2022-2058)
• libtiff: Double free or corruption in rotateImage() function at tiffcrop.c (CVE-2022-2519)
• libtiff: uint32_t underflow leads to out of bounds read and write in tiffcrop.c (CVE-2022-2867)
• libtiff: tiffcrop.c has uint32_t underflow which leads to out of bounds read and write in extractContigSamples8bits() (CVE-2022-2869)
• libtiff: tiffcrop: heap-buffer-overflow in extractImageSection in tiffcrop.c (CVE-2022-2953)
• libtiff: Assertion fail in rotateImage() function at tiffcrop.c (CVE-2022-2520)
• libtiff: Invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c (CVE-2022-2521)
• libtiff: Invalid crop_width and/or crop_length could cause an out-of-bounds read in reverseSamples16bits() (CVE-2022-2868)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running applications linked against libtiff must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2103222 - LibTiff: DoS from Divide By Zero Error
• BZ - 2118847 - CVE-2022-2867 libtiff: uint32_t underflow leads to out of bounds read and write in tiffcrop.c
• BZ - 2118863 - CVE-2022-2868 libtiff: Invalid crop_width and/or crop_length could cause an out-of-bounds read in reverseSamples16bits()
• BZ - 2118869 - CVE-2022-2869 libtiff: tiffcrop.c has uint32_t underflow which leads to out of bounds read and write in extractContigSamples8bits()
• BZ - 2122789 - CVE-2022-2519 libtiff: Double free or corruption in rotateImage() function at tiffcrop.c
• BZ - 2122792 - CVE-2022-2520 libtiff: Assertion fail in rotateImage() function at tiffcrop.c
• BZ - 2122799 - CVE-2022-2521 libtiff: Invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c
• BZ - 2134432 - CVE-2022-2953 libtiff: tiffcrop: heap-buffer-overflow in extractImageSection in tiffcrop.c

CVEs

• CVE-2022-2056
• CVE-2022-2057
• CVE-2022-2058
• CVE-2022-2519
• CVE-2022-2520
• CVE-2022-2521
• CVE-2022-2867
• CVE-2022-2868
• CVE-2022-2869
• CVE-2022-2953

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate