CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2022-1210 — A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in LibTIFF 4.3.0

Medium CVSS 6.5

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in LibTIFF 4.3.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the TIFF File Handler of tiff2ps. Opening a malicious file leads to a denial of service. The attack can be launched remotely but requires user interaction. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2022-04-03
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-404

Affected products

  • libtiff / libtiff / 4.3.0
  • netapp / ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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