FKIE_CVE-2013-4243
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-09-10 19:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:56
Severity
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.
References
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