vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2022-3598

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 21, 2022
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in extractContigSamplesShifted24bits in tools/tiffcrop.c:3604, 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 cfbb883b.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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