Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libtiff-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBTIFFDEVEL-9920349
  • published2 May 2025
  • disclosed22 Aug 2022

Introduced: 22 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-40090  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (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-devel package and not the libtiff-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

An issue was discovered in function TIFFReadDirectory libtiff before 4.4.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted TIFF file.