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CVE-2022-22844

Publication date 10 January 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

LibTIFF 4.3.0 has an out-of-bounds read in _TIFFmemcpy in tif_unix.c in certain situations involving a custom tag and 0x0200 as the second word of the DE field.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.4
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.6
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty

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Notes


mdeslaur

this is only a DoS in the tiffset command-line tool

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
tiff

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-5523-2
    • LibTIFF vulnerabilities
    • 12 September 2022

Other references