CVE-2022-3599 Denial of service in libtiff

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF file due to an out-of-bounds read in LibTIFF.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2022-3599?

CVE-2022-3599 is a medium-severity denial of service 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 read in writeSingleSection in tools/tiffcrop.c:7345, 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 e8131125.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-3599?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2022-3599?

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-2022-3599 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-3599 exists.

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Sources

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2022-3599, AZL-11286, AZL-44103, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3599, GHSA-6cg2-4798-gw4g, JLSEC-2025-285 and 1 more.

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