CVE-2020-35524: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libtiff in the handling of TIFF images in libtiff's TIFF2PDF tool. A specially crafted TIFF file can lead to arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 33 only
• Libtiff Libtiff: before 4.2.0 (fixed in 4.2.0)
• Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2021-03-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.