CVE-2023-1916

NameCVE-2023-1916
DescriptionA 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
tiff (PTS)buster4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u4vulnerable (unimportant)
buster (security)4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u9vulnerable (unimportant)
bullseye (security), bullseye4.2.0-1+deb11u5vulnerable (unimportant)
bookworm, bookworm (security)4.5.0-6+deb12u1vulnerable (unimportant)
sid, trixie4.5.1+git230720-4vulnerable (unimportant)

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
tiffsource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/536
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/537
Crash in CLI tool, no security impact

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