CVE-2024-6716

medium

Description

A flaw was found in libtiff. This flaw allows an attacker to create a crafted tiff file, forcing libtiff to allocate memory indefinitely. This issue can result in a denial of service of the system consuming libtiff due to memory starvation.

References

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/620

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297636

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6716

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-07-15

Updated: 2024-07-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium