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CVE-2022-3598

• 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: 2022-10-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted24bits in tools/tiffcrop.c:3604, 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 cfbb883b.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• libtiff: from 3.9.0 through 4.4.0
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions

References

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-3598.json
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/cfbb883bf6ea7bedcb04177cc4e52d304522fdff
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/435
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00018.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230110-0001/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-3598.json
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/cfbb883bf6ea7bedcb04177cc4e52d304522fdff
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/435
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00018.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230110-0001/

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