CVE-2022-0909 Denial of service in libtiff

What is CVE-2022-0909?

CVE-2022-0909 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 11 Mar 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Divide By Zero error in tiffcrop in libtiff 4.3.0 allows 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 f8d0f9aa.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0909?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Libtiff Libtiff, Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility.

How do I fix CVE-2022-0909?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-0909 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0909 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2022-0909, AZL-9022, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0909, GHSA-q29r-3c7h-xrh3, JLSEC-2025-266, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0909.