CVE-2023-26966

medium

Description

libtiff 4.5.0 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in uv_encode() when libtiff reads a corrupted little-endian TIFF file and specifies the output to be big-endian.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00019.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.html

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/473

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/530

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-06-29

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H