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CVE-2023-1916

Publication date 10 April 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

A flaw was found in tiffcrop, a program distributed by the libtiff package. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to an out-of-bounds read in the extractImageSection function in tools/tiffcrop.c, resulting in a denial of service and limited information disclosure. This issue affects libtiff versions 4.x.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu1
23.10 mantic Ignored
23.04 lunar
Fixed 4.5.0-5ubuntu1.2
22.10 kinetic Ignored
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.6
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.10
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty

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Notes

mdeslaur

low security impact as it is a denial of service in a command- line tool only, marking as low priority

ccdm94

As of 2023-08-22, the fix for this issue seems to have not been merged (https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/476).

mdeslaur

There is a new merge request here: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/535 Since the tiffcrop tool has been removed, the merge request will go nowhere, but can likely be used to fix previous releases.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
tiff

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6428-1
    • LibTIFF vulnerability
    • 11 October 2023

Other references