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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2022-34526 json

A stack overflow was discovered in the `_TIFFVGetField` function of Tiffsplit v4.4.0

published 2022-07-29 4 y ago modified 2026-07-23 3 mo ago also EUVD-2022-37480 , JLSEC-2025-275

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A stack overflow was discovered in the _TIFFVGetField function of Tiffsplit v4.4.0. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted TIFF file parsed by the "tiffsplit" or "tiffcrop" utilities.

Patch / fix

  • julia Libtiff_jll 4.5.1+0
  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.4.0-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-34526

  • tiff Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.8
  • tiff Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.6
  • tiff Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.2
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm5
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm7

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-34526

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • tiff SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15 +26 more 4.0.9-150000.45.16.1
  • tiff SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +6 more 4.0.9-44.56.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:3690-1SUSE-SU-2022:3679-1

  • tiff openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.4.0-3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12226-1

  • tiff Alpine 3.16, Alpine 3.15 4.4.0-r3
  • tiff Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +5 more 4.4.0-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-34526

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libtiff CBL-Mariner 2.0 4.4.0-3

azure linux advisories AZL-10441

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-34526 updated cvss 6.5

libtiff: A stack overflow was discovered in the _TIFFVGetField function of Tiffsplit

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libtiff, libtiff-tools, compat-libtiff3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libtiff, libtiff-tools, compat-libtiff3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 libtiff, libtiff-tools
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/433 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/486 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Libtiff_jll
>=4.4.0+0, <4.5.1+0
4.5.1+0

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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