Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libtiff package, versions [,4.7.0rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBTIFF-5416721
  • published10 Apr 2023
  • disclosed18 Mar 2023
  • creditxiaoxiaoafeifei

Introduced: 18 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-1916  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libtiff to version 4.7.0rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via a specially crafted tiff file, due to insufficient checks in the extractImageSection function in tools/tiffcrop.c file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1