CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-2908
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-06-30
- 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 ([email protected])
- 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 issue was found in Libtiff's tif_dir.c file. This issue may allow an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to the tiffcp utility which triggers a runtime error that causes undefined behavior. This will result in an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff (<= 4.5.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2908 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218830 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/9bd48f0dbd64fb94dc2b5b05238fde0bfdd4ff3f Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/479 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230731-0004/ Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2908 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218830 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/9bd48f0dbd64fb94dc2b5b05238fde0bfdd4ff3f Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/479 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00019.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230731-0004/ Third Party Advisory