CVE-2023-6277
Published: 24 November 2023
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
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Priority reason: Minor issue, only a OOM DoS |
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| rodrigo-zaiden | the first commit was claimed to introduce regressions, so we should consider the follow up commits that makes the check a bit less restrictive. one of the regressions was caught by debian in libimager-perl, https://bugs.debian.org/1057270. with the proposed follow up commits, we should be clear wit that regression |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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tiff Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Released
(4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm5)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only) |
| focal |
Released
(4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.12)
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| jammy |
Released
(4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8)
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| lunar |
Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
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| mantic |
Released
(4.5.1+git230720-1ubuntu1.1)
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| noble |
Not vulnerable
(4.5.1+git230720-3ubuntu1)
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| trusty |
Released
(4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm12)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only) |
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| upstream |
Released
(4.5.1+git230720-2)
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| xenial |
Released
(4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm15)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only) |
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Patches: upstream: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/5320c9d89c054fa805d037d84c57da874470b01a upstream: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/0b025324711213a75e38b52f7e7ba60235f108aa upstream: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/de7bfd7d4377c266f81849579f696fa1ad5ba6c3 upstream: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/dbb825a8312f30e63a06c272010967d51af5c35a |
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Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 6.5 |
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |