Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tiff package, versions <4.7.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-TIFF-18022505
  • published20 Jul 2026
  • 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 Echo:latest tiff to version 4.7.0 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest 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 Base Scores

version 3.1