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CVE-2022-2867

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-08-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-191

Description

libtiff's tiffcrop utility has a uint32_t underflow that can lead to out of bounds read and write. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to tiffcrop (likely via tricking a user to run tiffcrop on it with certain parameters) could cause a crash or in some cases, further exploitation.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36
• libtiff: before 4.4.0 — fixed in 4.4.0

How to fix

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

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118847
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00018.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118847
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00018.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333

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