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CVE-2022-2867 (GCVE-0-2022-2867)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-17 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:52
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Summary
libtiff's tiffcrop utility has a uint32_t underflow that can lead to out of bounds read and write. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to tiffcrop (likely via tricking a user to run tiffcrop on it with certain parameters) could cause a crash or in some cases, further exploitation.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a libtiff Affected: libtiff 4.4.0rc1
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