msrc_cve-2020-35524
Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft
Published
2021-03-02 00:00
Modified
2021-12-16 00:00
Summary
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libtiff in the handling of TIFF images in libtiff's TIFF2PDF tool. A specially crafted TIFF file can lead to arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality integrity as well as system availability.

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