CVE-2023-2908 Information

Description

A null pointer dereference issue was discovered in Libtiff’s tif_dir.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to the tiffcp utility which triggers runtime error causing an undefined behavior resulting in an application crash eventually leading to a denial of service.

Reference

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