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Vulnerability · Published Oct 21, 2022 · Assigned by GitLab

CVE-2022-3598

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity out-of-bounds write in libtiff from libtiff. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (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)1.3%top 30.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted24bits in tools/tiffcrop.c:3604, 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 cfbb883b.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9libtiff4.4.0-7.el9ALSA-2023:2340
AlmaLinux:9libtiff-devel4.4.0-7.el9ALSA-2023:2340
AlmaLinux:9libtiff-tools4.4.0-7.el9ALSA-2023:2340
Alpine:v3.20tiff4.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-3598
Alpine:v3.21tiff4.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-3598
Alpine:v3.22tiff4.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-3598
Alpine:v3.23tiff4.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-3598
Alpine:v3.24tiff4.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-3598
Debian:12tiff4.4.0-5DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3598
Debian:13tiff4.4.0-5DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3598
Debian:14tiff4.4.0-5DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3598
Ubuntu:22.04:LTStiff4.3.0-6ubuntu0.2USN-5714-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTStiff4.3.0-6ubuntu0.2UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3598

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
libtiff libtiff <=4.4.0

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

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