CVE-2022-41727: An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant amount of memory when passed to DecodeConfig

Medium severity · published Feb 28, 2023

CVE-2022-41727

An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant amount of memory when passed to DecodeConfig

5.5

CVSS

0.3%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant amount of memory when passed to DecodeConfig. This could lead to a denial of service.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack vector

Local

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

Required

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 23% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Fedora · Fedoraproject

37; 38 · source: NVD

Image · Golang

before 0.5.0 · source: NVD

Tiff · Golang

All versions, or not specified · source: NVD

Affected product

Fedora

Fedoraproject

All Fedora CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-41727

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-41727

Patch

https://go.dev/cl/468195

Issue Tracking

https://go.dev/issue/58003

Mailing List

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/ag-FiyjlD5o

Mailing List

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KO54NBDUJXKAZNGCFOEYL2LKK2RQP6K6/

Mailing List

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWH6Q7NVM4MV3GWFEU4PA67AWZHVFJQ2/

lists.fedoraproject.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XZTEP6JYILRBNDTNWTEQ5D4QUUVQBESK/