<p>Upgrade <code>Ubuntu:18.04</code> <code>tiff</code> to version 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm1 or higher.</p>

Buffer Overflow Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm1

Snyk CVSS

Attack Complexity Low

User Interaction Required

Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS 0.04% (10^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-TIFF-5752117
published 4 Jul 2023
disclosed 29 Jun 2023

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Introduced: 29 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-26966 Open this link in a new tab CWE-120 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 tiff to version 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.