Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tiff package, versions <4.6.0-r2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-TIFF-6140628
  • published29 Dec 2023
  • disclosed18 Dec 2023

Introduced: 18 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-6228  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard tiff to version 4.6.0-r2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was found in the tiffcp utility distributed by the libtiff package where a crafted TIFF file on processing may cause a heap-based buffer overflow leads to an application crash.

CVSS Scores

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