| Name | CVE-2023-2908 |
| Description | A null pointer dereference issue was found in Libtiff's tif_dir.c file. This issue may allow an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to the tiffcp utility which triggers a runtime error that causes undefined behavior. This will result in an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3513-1, ELA-909-1 |
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 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.0.8-2+deb9u8 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.0.8-2+deb9u12 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u9 | fixed |
| 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 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tiff | source | jessie | 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u16 | | ELA-909-1 | |
| tiff | source | stretch | 4.0.8-2+deb9u11 | | ELA-909-1 | |
| tiff | source | buster | 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u8 | | DLA-3513-1 | |
| tiff | source | (unstable) | 4.5.1~rc3-1 | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - tiff <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - tiff <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/479
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/9bd48f0dbd64fb94dc2b5b05238fde0bfdd4ff3f (v4.5.1rc1)
Introduced by the fix for CVE-2022-3599/CVE-2022-4645/CVE-2023-30086/CVE-2023-30774:
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/e813112545942107551433d61afd16ac094ff246 (v4.5.0rc1)