CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-34266

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Jul 19, 2022 | Modified: Sep 30, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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The libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.1 package for LibTIFF on Amazon Linux 2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-0562. When processing a malicious TIFF file, an invalid range may be passed as an argument to the memset() function within TIFFFetchStripThing() in tif_dirread.c. This will cause TIFFFetchStripThing() to segfault after use of an uninitialized resource.

Weakness

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
LibtiffLibtiff4.0.3-35 (including)4.0.3-35 (including)
TiffUbuntubionic*
TiffUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
TiffUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
TiffUbuntuesm-infra/focal*
TiffUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
TiffUbuntufocal*
TiffUbuntuimpish*
TiffUbuntutrusty*
TiffUbuntutrusty/esm*
TiffUbuntuupstream*

Potential Mitigations

References