CVE-2023-29408

CVSS 3.1 Score 6.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Aug 2, 2023
Updated: Nov 7, 2023
CWE ID 770

Summary

CVE-2023-29408 is a vulnerability affecting the TIFF decoder. The issue arises from a lack of size limitation on compressed tile data. An adversary can craft a malicious TIFF image, which appears small in terms of pixels and encoded size. However, this deceptive image can force the decoder to process large amounts of compressed data, resulting in excessive memory and CPU consumption.

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Affected Products

  • Fedora Operating System

Affected Vendors

  • Fedora Project

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