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CVE-2022-2953

• 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: 2022-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in extractImageSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:6905, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit 48d6ece8.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• libtiff: through 4.4.0
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions

References

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2953.json
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/48d6ece8389b01129e7d357f0985c8f938ce3da3
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/414
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221014-0008/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2953.json
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/48d6ece8389b01129e7d357f0985c8f938ce3da3
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/414
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221014-0008/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333

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