Medium severity · published Aug 31, 2022
CVE-2022-2520
A flaw was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1
6.5
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1. There is a sysmalloc assertion fail in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8621 that can cause program crash when reading a crafted input.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
libtiff ·
libtiff 4.4.0rc1 · source: vendor, NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2520
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2520
Exploit
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/424
Exploit
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333
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