CVE-2023-26966 (GCVE-0-2023-26966)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-29 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:35
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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