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Ubuntu: USN-6290-1 (CVE-2023-2731): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 17, 2023
Added
Aug 16, 2023
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

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.

Solutions

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