CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-2521
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-763
Description
It was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1 that there is an invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131 called by tiffcrop.c:2522 that can cause a program crash and denial of service while processing crafted input.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff 4.4.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-763 Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference weakness
References
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/422 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333 Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/422 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333 Third Party Advisory