Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libtiff (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBTIFF-9459762
- published16 Mar 2025
- disclosed22 May 2022
Introduced: 22 May 2022
CVE-2022-2521 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff package and not the libtiff package as distributed by RHEL.
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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2521
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0302
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2122799
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/422
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/378
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5333