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Security advisory
libtiff's tiffcrop tool has a uint32_t underflow which leads to out of bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits routine. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to tiffcrop could trigger this flaw, most likely by tricking a user into opening the crafted file with tiffcrop. Triggering this flaw could cause a crash or potentially further exploitation.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2022-2869
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 03:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
libtiff's tiffcrop tool has a uint32_t underflow which leads to out of bounds read and write in the extractContigSamples8bits routine. An attacker who supplies a crafted file to tiffcrop could trigger this flaw, most likely by tricking a user into opening the crafted file with tiffcrop. Triggering this flaw could cause a crash or potentially further exploitation.
osv:CVE-2022-2869
Complete source record
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