CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-40090

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Aug 22, 2023 | Modified: Aug 26, 2023
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in function TIFFReadDirectory libtiff before 4.4.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted TIFF file.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libtiff Libtiff * 4.4.0 (excluding)
Tiff Ubuntu bionic *
Tiff Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Tiff Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Tiff Ubuntu focal *
Tiff Ubuntu jammy *
Tiff Ubuntu trusty *
Tiff Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Tiff Ubuntu upstream *
Tiff Ubuntu xenial *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat libtiff-0:4.4.0-12.el9 *

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