Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libtiff-devel (opens in a new tab)
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- published2 May 2025
- disclosed13 Feb 2023
Introduced: 13 Feb 2023
CVE-2023-3618 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
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.
A flaw was found in libtiff. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to a segmentation fault due to a buffer overflow in the Fax3Encode function in libtiff/tif_fax3.c, resulting in a denial of service.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3618
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215865
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00034.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00019.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230824-0012/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214036
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214037
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214038