Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-35524 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libtiff in the handling of TIFF images in libtiff's TIFF2PDF tool. A specially crafted TIFF file can lead to arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://gitlab.com/rzkn/libtiff/-/commit/7be2e452ddcf6d7abca88f41d3761e6edab72b22
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932044
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/159
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4869
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-06
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210521-0009/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00023.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BMHBYFMX3D5VGR6Y3RXTTH3Q4NF4E6IG/