CVE-2023-3164

Publication date 2 November 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability was found in LibTIFF, in extractImageSection() at tools/tiffcrop.c:7916 and tools/tiffcrop.c:7801. This flaw allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted tiff file.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Crash in command line tool only.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu2.1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 4.5.1+git230720-1ubuntu1.2
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.9
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.13
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm6 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm16 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm13 Ubuntu Pro

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Notes

sbeattie

buffer overflow in unprivileged tiffcrop CLI tool

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: 7ec6f53 Upstream: bb6fa40 Upstream: 8974e99 Upstream: f7a8d3b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6827-1
LibTIFF vulnerability
11 June 2024