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CVE-2022-2869

libtiff's tiffcrop tool has a uint32_t underflow which leads to out of bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits routine.

Impact

libtiff's tiffcrop tool has a uint32_t underflow which leads to out of bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits routine. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to tiffcrop could trigger this flaw, most likely by tricking a user into opening the crafted file with tiffcrop. Triggering this flaw could cause a crash or potentially further exploitation.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LibtiffLibtiff
before 4.4.0
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 35, 36
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 10.0, 11.0

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