Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libtiff-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBTIFFDEVEL-9920083
  • published2 May 2025
  • disclosed15 Feb 2023

Introduced: 15 Feb 2023

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

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

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.

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.