CVE-2022-1354

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in Libtiffs' tiffinfo.c in TIFFReadRawDataStriped() function. This flaw allows an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF file to the tiffinfo tool, triggering a heap buffer overflow issue and causing a crash that leads to a denial of service.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35, 36
libtiff: before 4.4.0 — fixed in 4.4.0
NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: libtiff 4.4.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1354
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2074404
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/87f580f39011109b3bb5f6eca13fac543a542798
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/319
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00018.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-10
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221014-0007/
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1354
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2074404
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/87f580f39011109b3bb5f6eca13fac543a542798
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/319

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