CVE-2022-34266

Description

The libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.1 package for LibTIFF on Amazon Linux 2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-0562. When processing a malicious TIFF file, an invalid range may be passed as an argument to the memset() function within TIFFFetchStripThing() in tif_dirread.c. This will cause TIFFFetchStripThing() to segfault after use of an uninitialized resource.

Category

5.5
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.1 •
EPSS 0.03%
Third-Party Advisory amazon.com Third-Party Advisory gentoo.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2022-1814.html mitigation third party advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/859433 third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2022-34266?
CVE-2022-34266 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2022-34266?
To fix CVE-2022-34266, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2022-34266 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2022-34266 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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