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Vulnerability · Published Oct 4, 2023 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2023-3576Libtiff: memory leak in tiffcrop.c

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity memory corruption in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 29% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 71.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A memory leak flaw was found in Libtiff's tiffcrop utility. This issue occurs when tiffcrop operates on a TIFF image file, allowing an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to tiffcrop utility, which causes this memory leak issue, resulting an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9libtiff4.4.0-10.el9ALSA-2023:6575
AlmaLinux:9libtiff-devel4.4.0-10.el9ALSA-2023:6575
AlmaLinux:9libtiff-tools4.4.0-10.el9ALSA-2023:6575
Debian:12tiff4.5.0-6+deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3576
Debian:12tiff4.5.0-6+deb12u1DSA-5567-1
Debian:13tiff4.5.1~rc3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3576
Debian:14tiff4.5.1~rc3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3576
Ubuntu:22.04:LTStiff4.3.0-6ubuntu0.7UBUNTU-CVE-2023-3576
Ubuntu:22.04:LTStiff4.3.0-6ubuntu0.7USN-6512-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 see references
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 see references

Weakness: CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References