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Reachable Assertion

CVE-2022-2520

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

A flaw was found in libtiff versions prior to 4.5.0rc1. There is a sysmalloc assertion fail in "rotateImage()" at "tiffcrop.c:8621" that can cause a program to crash when reading a crafted input.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion

The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published