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CVE-2022-0562

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

Null source pointer passed as an argument to memcpy() function within TIFFReadDirectory() in tif_dirread.c in libtiff versions from 4.0 to 4.3.0 could lead to Denial of Service via crafted TIFF file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, a fix is available with commit 561599c.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35
• libtiff: from 4.0.0 through 4.3.0
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions

References

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/omnibus-mirror/libtiff/-/commit/561599c99f987dc32ae110370cfdd7df7975586b
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-0562.json
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/362
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00001.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DZEHZ35XVO2VBZ4HHCMM6J6TQIDSBQOM/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-10
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220318-0001/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5108
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/build/omnibus-mirror/libtiff/-/commit/561599c99f987dc32ae110370cfdd7df7975586b
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-0562.json
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/362
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00001.html

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