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CVE-2022-2869

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2022-08-17 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

libtiff's tiffcrop tool has a uint32_t underflow which leads to out of bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits routine. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to tiffcrop could trigger this flaw, most likely by tricking a user into opening the crafted file with tiffcrop. Triggering this flaw could cause a crash or potentially further exploitation.

Affected Platforms

Debian Debian LinuxLibtiff LibtiffFedoraproject Fedora

Weakness Type

CWE-191, CWE-125, CWE-787

References