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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2023-26966

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.

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CVE-2023-26966
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4 Nov 2026, 21:20 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2023-26966

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Jun 2023, 00:00 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-26966",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-26966",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:39.442329799Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/26xxx/CVE-2023-26966.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26966",
        "https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/530",
        "https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/473",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 507192,
  "published_at": "2023-06-29T00:00:00+00:00"
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