Medium severity · published Nov 2, 2023
CVE-2023-3164
Heap-buffer-overflow in extractimagesection()
5.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability was found in LibTIFF, in extractImageSection() at tools/tiffcrop.c:7916 and tools/tiffcrop.c:7801. This flaw allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted tiff file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 25% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedora
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
LI
Libtiff · Libtiff
before 4.6.0 · source: vendor, NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
7.0; 8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3164
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3164
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3164
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213531
Issue Tracking
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/542
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