CVE-2022-1355 Memory corruption in libtiff

What is CVE-2022-1355?

CVE-2022-1355 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 31 Aug 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

A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in Libtiffs' tiffcp.c in main() function. This flaw allows an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF file to the tiffcp tool, triggering a stack buffer overflow issue, possibly corrupting the memory, and causing a crash that leads to a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-119, CWE-121

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1355?

It affects 5 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2022-1355?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-1355 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1355 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1355, GHSA-2fqh-vmvf-c822, JLSEC-2025-281, OESA-2022-1669, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1355.