CVE-2023-26966

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Jun 29, 2023
Updated: Aug 1, 2023
CWE ID 120

Summary

CVE-2023-26966 is a new vulnerability affecting libtiff version 4.5.0. If a user opens a maliciously crafted little-endian TIFF file with this library and specifies the output format as big-endian, it can result in a buffer overflow in the uv_encode() function. An attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. Users are advised to update to the latest version of libtiff to mitigate this risk.

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