CVE-2022-2520 (GCVE-0-2022-2520)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-31 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A flaw was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1. There is a sysmalloc assertion fail in rotateImage() at tiffcrop.c:8621 that can cause program crash when reading a crafted input.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
Impacted products
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