Overview
About vulnerability
A flaw was found in Libtiff. This vulnerability is a “write-what-where” condition, triggered when the library processes a specially crafted TIFF image file.
By providing an abnormally large image height value in the file’s metadata, an attacker can trick the library into writing attacker-controlled color data to an arbitrary memory location. This memory corruption can be exploited to cause a denial of service (application crash) or to achieve arbitrary code execution with the permissions of the user.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
- Affected packages:
- libtiff @ 4.4.0 (+3 more)
A flaw was found in Libtiff. This vulnerability is a “write-what-where” condition, triggered when the library processes a specially crafted TIFF image file.
By providing an abnormally large image height value in the file’s metadata, an attacker can trick the library into writing attacker-controlled color data to an arbitrary memory location. This memory corruption can be exploited to cause a denial of service (application crash) or to achieve arbitrary code execution with the permissions of the user.