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GHSA-7MCC-HW35-PQWF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-06-19 12:30 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:30

Details

A NULL pointer dereference in TIFFClose() is caused by a failure to open an output file (non-existent path or a path that requires permissions like /dev/null) while specifying zones.

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-3316 (GCVE-0-2023-3316)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-19 11:10 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:35

Summary

A NULL pointer dereference in TIFFClose() is caused by a failure to open an output file (non-existent path or a path that requires permissions like /dev/null) while specifying zones.

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

JFROG

References

URL

Tags

	https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/libtif…
	https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/515
	https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/468
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	libtiff	libtiff	Affected: 3.9.0 , < 4.5.1 (git)

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GHSA-7MCC-HW35-PQWF

CVE-2023-3316 (GCVE-0-2023-3316)

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