Patch CVE-2024-7006 in libtiff

[aadhar-agarwal]

Merge Checklist

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• The toolchain has been rebuilt successfully (or no changes were made to it)
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• Packages depending on static components modified in this PR (Golang, *-static subpackages, etc.) have had their Release tag incremented.
• Package tests (%check section) have been verified with RUN_CHECK=y for existing SPEC files, or added to new SPEC files
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• All source files have up-to-date hashes in the *.signatures.json files
• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
• Documentation has been updated to match any changes to the build system
• Ready to merge

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Summary

What does the PR accomplish, why was it needed?

• This PR addresses CVE-2024-7006 in libtiff by patching the vulnerable code in the tif_dirinfo.c and tif_dirread.c files. The patch checks the return value of _TIFFCreateAnonField() to prevent a NULL pointer dereference and ensure the function is called correctly.
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/624
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/560

Change Log

• Patch CVE-2024-7006

Does this affect the toolchain?

NO

Associated issues

• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/624

Links to CVEs

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7006

Test Methodology

• Buddy build - https://dev.azure.com/mariner-org/mariner/_build/results?buildId=621952&view=results

[aadhar-agarwal]

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7006

Not sure if this CVE should be considered as high or a medium. NIST: NVD categorize it as 7.5 (high) but CNA: Red Hat, Inc. categorizes this as 6.2 (medium). If we consider this a medium, then I can retarget this PR to main

[CBL-Mariner-Bot]

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