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Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVE-2023-26966

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

The package libtiff versions prior to 4.5.1rc1 are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in "uv_encode()" when libtiff reads a corrupted little-endian TIFF file and specifies the output to be big-endian.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The program copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

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