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CVE-2022-41649

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

A heap out of bounds read vulnerability exists in the handling of IPTC data while parsing TIFF images in OpenImageIO v2.3.19.0. A specially-crafted TIFF file can cause a read of adjacent heap memory, which can leak sensitive process information. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• OpenImageIO Project OpenImageIO: 2.3.19.0

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00005.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-33
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1631
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5384
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00005.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-33
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1631
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5384

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