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CVE-2022-2520

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2022-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-131

Description

A flaw was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1. There is a sysmalloc assertion fail in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8621 that can cause program crash when reading a crafted input.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• libtiff: 4.4.0-rc1

References

• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/424
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/424
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333

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