CVE-2022-2953 (GCVE-0-2022-2953)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-29 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:53
VLAI
Summary
LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in extractImageSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:6905, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit 48d6ece8.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Out-of-bounds read in libtiff
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
libtiff libtiff Affected: <=4.4.0
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Credits
wangdw.augustus@gmail.com
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