Out-of-bounds Write Affecting compat-libtiff3 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-COMPATLIBTIFF3-6070605
  • published21 Nov 2023
  • disclosed7 Sept 2023

Introduced: 7 Sep 2023

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 compat-libtiff3.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream compat-libtiff3 package and not the compat-libtiff3 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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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