🛡️ CVE-2022-2520
🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-131 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A flaw was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1. There is a sysmalloc assertion fail in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8621 that can cause program crash when reading a crafted input.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-131
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-08-31
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
libtiff

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/424
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/424
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378

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