Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 17, 2023· Updated Jan 22, 2025

CVE-2023-2731

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 products

N/A/Libtiffv5
Range: Fixed in libtiff v4.5.0

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2731mitre
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitre
github.com/libsdl-org/libtiff/commit/9be22b639ea69e102d3847dca4c53ef025e9527bmitre
gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/548mitre
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230703-0009/mitre

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