CVE-2023-3618: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

July 12, 2023 (updated November 7, 2023)

A flaw was found in libtiff. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to a segmentation fault due to a buffer overflow in the Fax3Encode function in libtiff/tif_fax3.c, resulting in a denial of service.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3618
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215865
gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/8a4f6b587be4fa7bb39fe17f5f9dec52182ab26e
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3618

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