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CVE-2023-3164 — A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability was found in LibTIFF, in extractImageSectio

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
5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
1.00% (top 0.00%)
CWE
CWE-120
Published
2023-11-02T11:26:28.533Z
Last modified
2024-10-11T17:04:00.410Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / libtiffunspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9unspecified
FedoraFedoraunspecified
FedoraFedoraunspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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