CVE-2022-2521: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found in libtiff 4.4.0rc1 that there is an invalid pointer free operation in TIFFClose() at tif_close.c:131 called by tiffcrop.c:2522 that can cause a program crash and denial of service while processing crafted input.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
  • Libtiff Libtiff: version 4.4.0 only

Published 2022-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.