CVE-2022-2521

medium

Description

It 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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/422

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-08-31

Updated: 2023-02-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium