🛡️ CVE-2023-0797
🟡 CVSS 6.8 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-125 NVD
6.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in tiffcrop in libtiff/tif_unix.c:368, invoked by tools/tiffcrop.c:2903 and tools/tiffcrop.c:6921, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit afaabc3e.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-125
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-02-13
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-03-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libtiff 4.4.0

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/495
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/495

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