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CVE-2022-1355

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 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-121

Description

A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in Libtiffs' tiffcp.c in main() function. This flaw allows an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF file to the tiffcp tool, triggering a stack buffer overflow issue, possibly corrupting the memory, 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: 7.0, 8.0, 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-2022-1355
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2074415
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/400
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/323
• 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-2022-1355
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2074415
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/400
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/323

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