CVE-2024-6716

July 15, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

4.3
Medium

Description

A flaw was found in libtiff. This flaw allows an attacker to create a crafted tiff file, forcing libtiff to allocate memory indefinitely. This issue can result in a denial of service of the system consuming libtiff due to memory starvation.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
libtiff

Weaknesses

CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6716
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297636
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/620

Tags

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-400
2024-07-15
CVE-2024-6716

CVSS Score

4.3 / 10

CVSS Data

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: LOW
    • View Vector String

    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Date

  • Published: July 15, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
  • Last Modified: July 15, 2024, 6:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secalert@redhat.com

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