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Vulnerability · Published Jan 23, 2023 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-48281

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity out-of-bounds write in the libtiff package (AlmaLinux). Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 60.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

processCropSelections in tools/tiffcrop.c in LibTIFF through 4.5.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow (e.g., "WRITE of size 307203") via a crafted TIFF image.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8libtiff4.0.9-28.el8_8ALSA-2023:3827
AlmaLinux:9libtiff4.4.0-8.el9_2ALSA-2023:3711
AlmaLinux:8libtiff-devel4.0.9-28.el8_8ALSA-2023:3827
AlmaLinux:9libtiff-devel4.4.0-8.el9_2ALSA-2023:3711
AlmaLinux:8libtiff-tools4.0.9-28.el8_8ALSA-2023:3827
AlmaLinux:9libtiff-tools4.4.0-8.el9_2ALSA-2023:3711
Alpine:v3.20tiff4.5.0-r3ALPINE-CVE-2022-48281
Alpine:v3.21tiff4.5.0-r3ALPINE-CVE-2022-48281
Alpine:v3.22tiff4.5.0-r3ALPINE-CVE-2022-48281
Alpine:v3.23tiff4.5.0-r3ALPINE-CVE-2022-48281
Alpine:v3.24tiff4.5.0-r3ALPINE-CVE-2022-48281
Debian:12tiff4.5.0-4DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48281
Debian:13tiff4.5.0-4DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48281
Debian:14tiff4.5.0-4DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48281
Rocky Linux:8libtiff0:4.0.9-28.el8_8RLSA-2023:3827
Rocky Linux:9libtiff0:4.4.0-8.el9_2RLSA-2023:3711
Ubuntu:22.04:LTStiff4.3.0-6ubuntu0.5USN-6290-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTStiff4.3.0-6ubuntu0.5UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48281

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-787 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References