CVE-2020-35524: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

March 9, 2021 (updated July 8, 2021)

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

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932044
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35524

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