FKIE_CVE-2022-2521

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-08-31 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:42
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/422Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/422Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libtiff libtiff 4.4.0
debian debian_linux 11.0
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