CVE-2020-35524

high

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libtiff in the handling of TIFF images in libtiff's TIFF2PDF tool. A specially crafted TIFF file can lead to arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

References

Advisories

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4869

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210521-0009/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-06

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BMHBYFMX3D5VGR6Y3RXTTH3Q4NF4E6IG/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00023.html

https://gitlab.com/rzkn/libtiff/-/commit/7be2e452ddcf6d7abca88f41d3761e6edab72b22

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/159

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932044

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-03-09

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00414