CVE-2023-3195 — A stack-based buffer overflow issue was found in ImageMagick's coders/tiff

A stack-based buffer overflow issue was found in ImageMagick's coders/tiff.c. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the user into opening a specially crafted malicious tiff file, causing an application to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

01What is this vulnerability?

A stack-based buffer overflow issue was found in ImageMagick's coders/tiff.c. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the user into opening a specially crafted malicious tiff file, causing an application to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / ImageMagick	Fixed in ImageMagick 6.9.12-26, ImageMagick 7.1.0-11

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

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

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

• Published: 2023-06-16T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-12-03T16:24:31.268Z

09References

• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214141
• www.openwall.com — https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/29/1
• github.com — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/85a370c79afeb45a97842b0959366…
• github.com — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f620340935777b28fa3f7b0ed7ed6b…
• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3195
• lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro…
• lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro…