CVE-2023-2908

Description

A null pointer dereference issue was found in Libtiff's tif_dir.c file. This issue may allow an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to the tiffcp utility which triggers a runtime error that causes undefined behavior. This will result in an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230731-0004/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.html

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/479

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/9bd48f0dbd64fb94dc2b5b05238fde0bfdd4ff3f

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218830

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2908

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3