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Vulnerability · Published Feb 11, 2022 · Assigned by GitLab

CVE-2022-0561

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in libtiff from libtiff. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 70% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 30.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFFetchStripThing() in tif_dirread.c in libtiff versions from 3.9.0 to 4.3.0 could lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit eecb0712.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8libtiff4.0.9-23.el8ALSA-2022:7585
AlmaLinux:9libtiff4.4.0-2.el9ALSA-2022:8194
AlmaLinux:8libtiff-devel4.0.9-23.el8ALSA-2022:7585
AlmaLinux:9libtiff-devel4.4.0-2.el9ALSA-2022:8194
AlmaLinux:8libtiff-tools4.0.9-23.el8ALSA-2022:7585
AlmaLinux:9libtiff-tools4.4.0-2.el9ALSA-2022:8194
Alpine:v3.20tiff4.3.0-r1ALPINE-CVE-2022-0561
Alpine:v3.21tiff4.3.0-r1ALPINE-CVE-2022-0561
Alpine:v3.22tiff4.3.0-r1ALPINE-CVE-2022-0561
Alpine:v3.23tiff4.3.0-r1ALPINE-CVE-2022-0561
Alpine:v3.24tiff4.3.0-r1ALPINE-CVE-2022-0561
Debian:12tiff4.3.0-4DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0561
Debian:13tiff4.3.0-4DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0561
Debian:14tiff4.3.0-4DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0561
Rocky Linux:8libtiff0:4.0.9-23.el8RLSA-2022:7585

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
libtiff libtiff >=3.9.0, <=4.3.0

References