Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Affecting libtiff package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBTIFF-6130240
  • published18 Dec 2023
  • disclosed18 Dec 2023
  • creditShin-Yan

Introduced: 18 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-6228  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption when processing a crafted TIFF file, which may result in a heap-based buffer overflow and lead to an application crash. An attacker can cause a denial of service by submitting a maliciously crafted TIFF file to the affected utility.

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