Vulnerability CVE-2023-2908


Published: 2023-06-30   Modified: 2023-07-01

Description:
A null pointer dereference issue was discovered in Libtiff's tif_dir.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to the tiffcp utility, which triggers runtime error, causing an undefined behavior, resulting in an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2908
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218830
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/9bd48f0dbd64fb94dc2b5b05238fde0bfdd4ff3f
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/479

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