Buffer Overflow Affecting tiff package, versions <4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-5749341
  • published1 Jul 2023
  • disclosed29 Jun 2023

Introduced: 29 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-26966  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 tiff to version 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u8 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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