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CVE-2022-0891

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-03-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A heap buffer overflow in ExtractImageSection function in tiffcrop.c in libtiff library Version 4.3.0 allows attacker to trigger unsafe or out of bounds memory access via crafted TIFF image file which could result into application crash, potential information disclosure or any other context-dependent impact

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36
• libtiff: from 3.9.0 through 4.3.0
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions

References

• https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/mirrors/gitlab/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/232282fd8f9c21eefe8d2d2b96cdbbb172fe7b7c
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-0891.json
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/380
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/382
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RNT2GFNRLOMKJ5KXM6JIHKBNBFDVZPD3/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZQ4E654ZYUUUQNBKYQFXNK2CV3CPWTM2/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-10
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221228-0008/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5108
• https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/mirrors/gitlab/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/232282fd8f9c21eefe8d2d2b96cdbbb172fe7b7c
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-0891.json
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/380

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