usn-5743-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2022-11-24 17:02
Modified
2026-06-25 10:46
Summary
tiff vulnerability
Details

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed\nimages. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially\ncrafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a\ndenial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.\n",
  "id": "USN-5743-1",
  "modified": "2026-06-25T10:46:09Z",
  "published": "2022-11-24T17:02:39Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
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    }
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  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "tiff vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3970"
  ]
}



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