CVE-2023-2731 (GCVE-0-2023-2731)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-17 00:00
Modified
2025-01-22 18:22
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libtiff Version: Fixed in libtiff v4.5.0
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