Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-2731 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in Libtiff's LZWDecode() function in the libtiff/tif_lzw.c file. This flaw allows a local attacker to craft specific input data that can cause the program to dereference a NULL pointer when decompressing a TIFF format file, resulting in a program crash or denial of service.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2731
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2207635
- https://github.com/libsdl-org/libtiff/commit/9be22b639ea69e102d3847dca4c53ef025e9527b
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/548
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230703-0009/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2731
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230703-0009/
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/548
- https://github.com/libsdl-org/libtiff/commit/9be22b639ea69e102d3847dca4c53ef025e9527b
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2207635