CVE-2023-6277

Publication date 24 November 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Minor issue, only a OOM DoS

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 4.5.1+git230720-1ubuntu1.1
	23.04 lunar	Ignored
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.12
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm5 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm15 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm12 Ubuntu Pro

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Notes

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

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: 5320c9d Upstream: 0b02532 Upstream: de7bfd7 Upstream: dbb825a

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
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