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FKIE_CVE-2023-2908

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-06-30 22:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:53
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A null pointer dereference issue was found in Libtiff's tif_dir.c file. This issue may allow an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to the tiffcp utility which triggers a runtime error that causes undefined behavior. This will result in an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2908Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218830Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/9bd48f0dbd64fb94dc2b5b05238fde0bfdd4ff3fPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/479Exploit, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230731-0004/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2908Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218830Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/9bd48f0dbd64fb94dc2b5b05238fde0bfdd4ff3fPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/479Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00019.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230731-0004/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libtiff libtiff *
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