Medium severity · published Oct 4, 2023
CVE-2023-3576
Libtiff: memory leak in tiffcrop.c
5.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A memory leak flaw was found in Libtiff's tiffcrop utility. This issue occurs when tiffcrop operates on a TIFF image file, allowing an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to tiffcrop utility, which causes this memory leak issue, resulting an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service.
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 28% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
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
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
LI
Libtiff · Libtiff
before 4.5.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3576
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3576
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6575
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3576
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219340
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00011.html
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