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GHSA-xjff-629w-p8r7

GHSA-xjff-629w-p8r7 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 3, 2022

Heap-based buffer overflow in the NeXT RLE decoder in the TIFF library (libtiff) before 3.8.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors involving decoding large RLE images.

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Timeline

  • May 3, 2022 CVE Published
  • Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (2 in total, the first dated here)
  • Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (2 in total, the first dated here)

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