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SUSE: CVE-2020-35524: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2020-35524: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/25/2021
Created
02/24/2022
Added
02/18/2022
Modified
02/19/2022

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libtiff in the handling of TIFF images in libtiff's TIFF2PDF tool. A specially crafted TIFF file can lead to arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libtiff-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff3
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff3-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff5
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff5-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-tiff

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