CVE-2023-6277

NameCVE-2023-6277
DescriptionAn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1056751

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
tiff (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye4.2.0-1+deb11u5vulnerable
bookworm, bookworm (security)4.5.0-6+deb12u1vulnerable
sid, trixie4.5.1+git230720-5fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
tiffsource(unstable)4.5.1+git230720-21056751

Notes

[bookworm] - tiff <no-dsa> (Minor issue; will cause compatibility issue with libimager-perl, cf #1057270)
[bullseye] - tiff <no-dsa> (Minor issue; will cause compatibility issue with libimager-perl, cf #1057270)
[buster] - tiff <ignored> (Minor issue; OOM DoS)
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/614
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/545
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/5320c9d89c054fa805d037d84c57da874470b01a
Updating with fix for CVE-2023-6277 will cause a regression in libimager-perl, cf.
https://bugs.debian.org/1057270

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