CVE-2022-3598

Published: 25 October 2022

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted24bits in tools/tiffcrop.c:3604, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit cfbb883b.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
tiff Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (4.0.9-5ubuntu0.8)
	focal	Released (4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.6)
	jammy	Released (4.3.0-6ubuntu0.2)
	kinetic	Released (4.4.0-4ubuntu3.1)
	lunar	Released (4.4.0-4ubuntu3.1)
	trusty	Released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm5)
	upstream	Released (4.4.0-5)
	xenial	Released (4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm6)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022555

Join the discussion

Canonical is offering Expanded Security Maintenance

Canonical is offering Ubuntu Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) for security fixes and essential packages.

Find out more about ESM ›