Resource Exhaustion Affecting tiff package, versions <4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.12
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.18% (55th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2004-TIFF-6085415
- published 16 Jan 2024
- disclosed 24 Nov 2023
Introduced: 24 Nov 2023
CVE-2023-6277 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 tiff to version 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.12 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
An out-of-memory flaw was found in libtiff. Passing a crafted tiff file to TIFFOpen() API may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a craft input with size smaller than 379 KB.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2023-6277
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6277
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251311
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/614
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/545
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WJIN6DTSL3VODZUGWEUXLEL5DR53EZMV/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y7ZGN2MZXJ6E57W3L4YBM3ZPAU3T7T5C/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0002/
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