CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-2869

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2022-08-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-08-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125, CWE-191, CWE-787

Description

libtiff's tiffcrop tool has a uint32_t underflow which leads to out of bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits routine. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to tiffcrop could trigger this flaw, most likely by tricking a user into opening the crafted file with tiffcrop. Triggering this flaw could cause a crash or potentially further exploitation.

Affected configurations

• libtiff libtiff (< 4.4.0) • fedoraproject fedora 35 • fedoraproject fedora 36 • debian debian linux 10.0 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
  • CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References