| Name | CVE-2023-1916 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (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 Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tiff (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u17 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.0.8-2+deb9u8 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.0.8-2+deb9u12 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u9 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 4.2.0-1+deb11u5 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 4.5.0-6+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 4.5.1+git230720-5 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tiff | source | (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