CVE-2022-2869

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLibtiff
PublishedAug 17, 2022
First seenAug 17, 2022
Weakness typeCWE-191CWE-191

How to fix

Update
  • libtiff libtiff4.4.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
libtiff libtiffv < 4.4.04.4.0
fedoraproject fedora35, 36—
debian debian_linux10.0, 11.0—

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