CVE-2023-2908 (GCVE-0-2023-2908)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-30 00:00
Modified
2024-10-28 13:04
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Libtiff
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