github - ghsa-wg7m-6ff7-7pcj

ghsa-wg7m-6ff7-7pcj

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-06-29 21:30

Modified

2025-11-03 21:30

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

libtiff 4.5.0 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in uv_encode() when libtiff reads a corrupted little-endian TIFF file and specifies the output to be big-endian.

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CVE-2023-26966 (GCVE-0-2023-26966)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-06-29 00:00

Modified

2025-11-03 20:35

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

libtiff 4.5.0 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in uv_encode() when libtiff reads a corrupted little-endian TIFF file and specifies the output to be big-endian.

References

URL

Tags

	https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/530
	https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/473
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.html	mailing-list

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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