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Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-26966
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 21:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2023-26966
Complete source record
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"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26966",
"https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/530",
"https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/473",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.html"
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