CVE-2022-2868 Denial of service in libtiff

What is CVE-2022-2868?

CVE-2022-2868 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 17 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

libtiff's tiffcrop utility has a improper input validation flaw that can lead to out of bounds read and ultimately cause a crash if an attacker is able to supply a crafted file to tiffcrop.

Weakness: CWE-1284, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2868?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Libtiff Libtiff.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2868?

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-2022-2868 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2868 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-2022-2868, AZL-10568, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2868, GHSA-8rfm-2x4g-8xh5, JLSEC-2025-277, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2868.