CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-1916

MediumCVSS 6.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.37%

30th percentile - higher than 30% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw was found in tiffcrop, a program distributed by the libtiff package. A specially crafted TIFF file can lead to an out-of-bounds read in the extractImageSection function in tools/tiffcrop.c, resulting in a denial of service and limited information disclosure. This issue affects libtiff versions 4.x.

Risk Assessment

Processing a malicious TIFF file could crash the tiffcrop tool and disclose limited information from process memory.

Recommendation

Update libtiff to a patched version and avoid processing untrusted TIFF files.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in tiffcrop, a program distributed by the libtiff package. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to an out-of-bounds read in the extractImageSection function in tools/tiffcrop.c, resulting in a denial of service and limited information disclosure. This issue affects libtiff versions 4.x.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS