PT-2022-4502 · Libtiff+7 · Libtiff+7

[e-mail] · Published 2022-08-29 · Updated 2025-06-19 · CVE-2022-2953

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions LibTIFF version 4.4.0

Description The issue is related to an out-of-bounds read in the extractImageSection function in tools/tiffcrop.c:6905, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. This can allow a remote attacker to cause a service disruption using a specially formed file.

Recommendations For LibTIFF version 4.4.0, users who compile libtiff from sources can apply the fix available with commit 48d6ece8. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Heap Based Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

CWE-122

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2023:0095

ALSA-2023:0302

ALSA-2023_0095

ALSA-2023_0302

ALT-PU-2025-7185

AZL-10762

BDU:2022-05369

CESA-2023_0095

CVE-2022-2953

DSA-5333-1

ELSA-2023-0095

ELSA-2023-0302

OESA-2022-1917

RHSA-2023:0095

RHSA-2023:0302

RHSA-2023_0095

RHSA-2023_0302

RLSA-2023:0095

RLSA-2023:0302

RLSA-2023_0095

RLSA-2023_0302

ROSA-SA-2025-2627

USN-5714-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Almalinux

Centos

Libtiff

Linuxmint

Red Hat

Rocky Linux

Ubuntu

References · 78

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/2xxx/CVE-2022-2953.json · Exploit
• 🔥 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2953.json · Exploit
• 🔥 https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/414 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3597 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3627 · Vendor Advisory
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/48d6ece8389b01129e7d357f0985c8f938ce3da3 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2868 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-2953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3570 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALSA-2023:0095 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5714-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2521 · Vendor Advisory