CVE-2022-41639: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in tile decoding code of TIFF image parser in OpenImageIO master-branch-9aeece7a and v2.3.19.0. A specially-crafted TIFF file can lead to an out of bounds memory corruption, which can result in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Openimageio Openimageio: version 2.3.19.0 only

Published 2022-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.