CVE-2022-34266

5.5 MEDIUM
Published: July 19, 2022 Modified: September 30, 2025

Description

The libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.1 package for LibTIFF on Amazon Linux 2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-0562. When processing a malicious TIFF file, an invalid range may be passed as an argument to the memset() function within TIFFFetchStripThing() in tif_dirread.c. This will cause TIFFFetchStripThing() to segfault after use of an uninitialized resource.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2022-1814.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mitigation Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/859433
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2022-1814.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mitigation Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/859433
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory

4 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
5.5 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.0%
10th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

amazon libtiff