Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 31, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-2520

Description

A flaw was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1. There is a sysmalloc assertion fail in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8621 that can cause program crash when reading a crafted input.

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Affected products

LibTIFF/Libtiff3 versions
cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:4.4.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:4.4.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <4.4.0rc1
- (no CPE)range: libtiff 4.4.0rc1
Debian/linux
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
osv-coords42 versions
pkg:rpm/almalinux/libtiff pkg:rpm/almalinux/libtiff-devel pkg:rpm/almalinux/libtiff-tools pkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3 pkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4 pkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%20Micro%205.2 pkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCL pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCL pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCL pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-BCL pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.1 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Retail%20Branch%20Server%204.1 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.1 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209 pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 4.0.9-26.el8_7+ 41 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-26.el8_7
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-26.el8_7
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-26.el8_7
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.0-4.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.56.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.56.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.56.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.56.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.56.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.56.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.56.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.56.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.56.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/424nvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378nvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333nvdThird Party Advisory

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