CVE-2023-2731 (GCVE-0-2023-2731)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-17 00:00
Modified
2025-01-22 18:22
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in Libtiff's LZWDecode() function in the libtiff/tif_lzw.c file. This flaw allows a local attacker to craft specific input data that can cause the program to dereference a NULL pointer when decompressing a TIFF format file, resulting in a program crash or denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2731Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2207635Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/libsdl-org/libtiff/commit/9be22b639ea69e102d3847dca4c53ef025e9527bPatch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/548Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230703-0009/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2731Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2207635Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/libsdl-org/libtiff/commit/9be22b639ea69e102d3847dca4c53ef025e9527bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/548Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230703-0009/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libtiff Version: Fixed in libtiff v4.5.0
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