Description
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.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.com/rzkn/libtiff/-/commit/7be2e452ddcf6d7abca88f41d3761e6edab72b22
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/159
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932044
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4869
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BMHBYFMX3D5VGR6Y3RXTTH3Q4NF4E6IG/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-06
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00023.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210521-0009/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0041
EPSS Percentile
61.5%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (8)
debian/debian_linux
9.0
debian/debian_linux
10.0
fedoraproject/fedora
33
libtiff/libtiff
< 4.2.0
netapp/ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility
redhat/enterprise_linux
6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
8.0
Published
Mar 09, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026