CVE-2022-2521

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    CVE-2022-2521

    Published: 31 Aug 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: It was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1 that there is an invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131 called by tiffcrop.c:2522 that can cause a program crash and denial of service while processing crafted input.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/2xxx/CVE-2022-2521.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2521, https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333, https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/422, https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378

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    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- b6a17e567f143fab49734a9e09e5bafeb6f97354
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.4.0-rc1

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