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CVE-2022-2869

Public on 2022-08-17
Modified on 2024-01-30
Description

A flaw was found in libtiff's tiffcrop tool that has a uint32_t underflow, which leads to an out-of-bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits routine. This flaw allows an attacker who supplies a crafted file to tiffcrop to trick a user into opening the crafted file with tiffcrop, causing a crash or potential further exploitations.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core libtiff 2022-10-31 19:40 ALAS2-2022-1872
Amazon Linux 2023 libtiff 2023-02-17 20:45 ALAS2023-2023-050

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H