Medium
Security advisory
A flaw was found in libtiff. Due to a memory allocation failure in tif_read.c, a crafted TIFF file can lead to an abort, resulting in denial of service.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-35521
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in libtiff. Due to a memory allocation failure in tif_read.c, a crafted TIFF file can lead to an abort, resulting in denial of service.
osv:CVE-2020-35521
Complete source record
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