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Permalink CVE-2024-6716
4.3 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): NONE
  • User interaction (UI): REQUIRED
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): NONE
  • Integrity impact (I): NONE
  • Availability impact (A): LOW
created 6 months, 1 week ago
Libtiff: out-of-memory issue in tiffreadencodedstrip() may lead to denial of service

A flaw was found in libtiff. This flaw allows an attacker to create a crafted tiff file, forcing libtiff to allocate memory indefinitely. This issue can result in a denial of service of the system consuming libtiff due to memory starvation.

References

Affected products

libtiff
mingw-libtiff
compat-libtiff3

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.libtiff

Library and utilities for working with the TIFF image file format

  • nixos-unstable -

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