Buffer Overflow Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <0:4.4.0-10.el9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBTIFFDEVEL-7875802
  • published3 Sept 2024
  • disclosed15 Feb 2023

Introduced: 15 Feb 2023

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

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 libtiff-devel to version 0:4.4.0-10.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:6575.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-devel package and not the libtiff-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 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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