Vulnerability · Published Jan 8, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-22844
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the libtiff package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.4%top 27.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
LibTIFF 4.3.0 has an out-of-bounds read in _TIFFmemcpy in tif_unix.c in certain situations involving a custom tag and 0x0200 as the second word of the DE field.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux:8 | libtiff | 4.0.9-23.el8 | ALSA-2022:7585 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | libtiff | 4.4.0-2.el9 | ALSA-2022:8194 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | libtiff-devel | 4.0.9-23.el8 | ALSA-2022:7585 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | libtiff-devel | 4.4.0-2.el9 | ALSA-2022:8194 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | libtiff-tools | 4.0.9-23.el8 | ALSA-2022:7585 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | libtiff-tools | 4.4.0-2.el9 | ALSA-2022:8194 |
| Alpine:v3.20 | tiff | 4.3.0-r1 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22844 |
| Alpine:v3.21 | tiff | 4.3.0-r1 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22844 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | tiff | 4.3.0-r1 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22844 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | tiff | 4.3.0-r1 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22844 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | tiff | 4.3.0-r1 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-22844 |
| Debian:12 | tiff | 4.3.0-3 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-22844 |
| Debian:13 | tiff | 4.3.0-3 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-22844 |
| Debian:14 | tiff | 4.3.0-3 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-22844 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | libtiff | 0:4.0.9-23.el8 | RLSA-2022:7585 |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/355
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/287
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220306 [SECURITY] [DLA 2932-1] tiff security update mailing-list
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220311-0002/
- DSA-5108 vendor-advisory
- GLSA-202210-10 vendor-advisory