CVE-2022-2521

Summary

CVECVE-2022-2521
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-08-31 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-23 15:59:00 UTC
DescriptionIt was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1 that there is an invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131 called by tiffcrop.c:2522 that can cause a program crash and denial of service while processing crafted input.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-763

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Application Libtiff Libtiff 4.4.0 rc1 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
tiffcrop: free invalid pointer in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131 called by tiffcrop.c:2522 (#422) · Issues · libtiff / libtiff · GitLab MISC gitlab.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5333-1 tiff DEBIAN www.debian.org
tiffcrop: -S option mutually exclusive (fixes #349, #414, #422, #423, #424) (!378) · Merge requests · libtiff / libtiff · GitLab MISC gitlab.com
2122799 – (CVE-2022-2521) CVE-2022-2521 libtiff: Invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160390 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for libtiff (ELSA-2023-0095)
  • 160411 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for libtiff (ELSA-2023-0302)
  • 181520 Debian Security Update for tiff (DSA 5333-1)
  • 182317 Debian Security Update for tiff (CVE-2022-2521)
  • 199019 Ubuntu Security Notification for LibTIFF Vulnerabilities (USN-5714-1)
  • 241054 Red Hat Update for libtiff (RHSA-2023:0095)
  • 241120 Red Hat Update for libtiff (RHSA-2023:0302)
  • 355148 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libtiff : ALAS2023-2023-067
  • 355324 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libtiff : ALAS2-2023-2055
  • 502794 Alpine Linux Security Update for tiff
  • 503030 Alpine Linux Security Update for tiff
  • 503131 Alpine Linux Security Update for tiff
  • 505944 Alpine Linux Security Update for tiff
  • 673143 EulerOS Security Update for libtiff (EulerOS-SA-2023-2298)
  • 673160 EulerOS Security Update for libtiff (EulerOS-SA-2023-2274)
  • 752686 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tiff (SUSE-SU-2022:3679-1)
  • 752701 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for tiff (SUSE-SU-2022:3690-1)
  • 940871 AlmaLinux Security Update for libtiff (ALSA-2023:0095)
  • 940898 AlmaLinux Security Update for libtiff (ALSA-2023:0302)
  • 960525 Rocky Linux Security Update for libtiff (RLSA-2023:0302)
  • 960537 Rocky Linux Security Update for libtiff (RLSA-2023:0095)
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