CVE-2020-35521 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libtiff

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer6 documents6 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
LibtiffDebian TiffFedoraproject Fedora+3 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 9
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A flaw was found in libtiff. Due to a memory allocation failure in tif_read.c, a crafted TIFF file can lead to an abort, resulting in denial of service.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDlibtiff/libtiff< 4.2.0
▶CVEListV5libtiff/libtifflibtiff 4.2.0
▶debiandebian/tiff< tiff 4.1.0+git201212-1 (bookworm)

Also affects: Fedora 33, Enterprise Linux 7.0, 8.0

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-9g68-wfgw-rc4f: A flaw was found in libtiff↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2020-35521: A flaw was found in libtiff↗2021-03-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Microsoft
A flaw was found in libtiff. Due to a memory allocation failure in tif_read.c a crafted TIFF file can lead to an abort resulting in denial of service.↗2021-03-09
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Red Hat
libtiff: Memory allocation failure in tiff2rgba↗2020-12-14
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Debian
CVE-2020-35521: tiff - A flaw was found in libtiff. Due to a memory allocation failure in tif_read.c, a...↗2020
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CVE-2020-35521 — Libtiff vulnerability | cvebase