CVE-2022-2953: Out-of-bounds Read

August 29, 2022 (updated February 23, 2023)

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in extractImageSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:6905, 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 48d6ece8.

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2953.json
gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/48d6ece8389b01129e7d357f0985c8f938ce3da3
gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/414
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2953

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