CVE-2023-2908

Summary

A null pointer dereference issue was found in Libtiff's tif_dir.c file. This issue may allow an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to the tiffcp utility which triggers a runtime error that causes undefined behavior. This will result in an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2908
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218830
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/9bd48f0dbd64fb94dc2b5b05238fde0bfdd4ff3f
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/479
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230731-0004/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00019.html

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2908
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218830
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/9bd48f0dbd64fb94dc2b5b05238fde0bfdd4ff3f
• https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/479
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230731-0004/

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