CVE-2023-6228
Libtiff: heap-based buffer overflow in cpstriptotile() in tools/tiffcp.c
LOW
3.3
CVSS Score
Published: December 18, 2023 at 01:43 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:50 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsLibTIFFEnterprise Linux
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Severity
LOW3.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
An issue was found in the tiffcp utility distributed by the libtiff package where a crafted TIFF file on processing may cause a heap-based buffer overflow leads to an application crash.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:4.0.9-32.el8_10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:4.4.0-12.el9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6 (unknown)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7 (unknown)
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2289Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5079VDB Entryx_refsource_REDHATVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6228Issue Trackingx_refsource_REDHATVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240995CVSS
3.3LOWredhat
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- LOW
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787
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