Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <0:4.4.0-12.el9


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBTIFFDEVEL-6070568
  • 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?

Upgrade RHEL:9 libtiff-devel to version 0:4.4.0-12.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:2289.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-devel package and not the libtiff-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 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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