CVE-2022-3597 Memory corruption in libtiff

What is CVE-2022-3597?

CVE-2022-3597 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 21 Oct 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 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in _TIFFmemcpy in libtiff/tif_unix.c:346 when called from extractImageSection, tools/tiffcrop.c:6826, allowing 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 236b7191.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-3597?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Libtiff Libtiff, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2022-3597?

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-2022-3597 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-3597 exists.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2022-3597, AZL-11284, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3597, GHSA-579p-3xv7-xhp3, JLSEC-2025-283.