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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-3599: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 21, 2022
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in writeSingleSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:7345, 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 e8131125.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-tiff
Title
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