CVE-2022-2056

Publication date 30 June 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Divide By Zero error in tiffcrop in libtiff 4.4.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit f3a5e010.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.1
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.5
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.7
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm4

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: dd1bcc7

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5619-1
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
20 September 2022