CVE-2020-35522

Publication date 9 March 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

In LibTIFF, there is a memory malloc failure in tif_pixarlog.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to an abort, resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.3
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.5
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty

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Notes

mdeslaur

this issue simply causes the tiff2rgba tool to abort on a malformed image, and has very little security impact.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
tiff

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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