🛡️ CVE-2022-3970 on Debian — tiff

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function TIFFReadRGBATileExt of the file libtiff/tif_getimage.c. The manipulation leads to integer overflow. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 227500897dfb07fb7d27f7aa570050e62617e3be. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-213549 was assigned to this vulnerability.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-3970 as tracked by Debian, for the package tiff. The fix is available in version 4.4.0-6; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3970 is recorded against 1 package.

tiff (fixed in 4.4.0-6)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 November 2022 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2022-3970 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Alpine Base record Ubuntu

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2022-11-13

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2026-08-04

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
tiff	—	4.4.0-6

References

ADVISORY https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-3970

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