CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-2731
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-05-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff (< 4.5.0)
• fedoraproject fedora 38
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2731 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2207635 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libsdl-org/libtiff/commit/9be22b639ea69e102d3847dca4c53ef025e9527b Patch
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/548 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230703-0009/ security.netapp.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2731 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2207635 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libsdl-org/libtiff/commit/9be22b639ea69e102d3847dca4c53ef025e9527b Patch
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/548 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230703-0009/ security.netapp.com