| Name | CVE-2023-6277 |
| Description | An 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1056751 |
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+deb8u16 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.0.8-2+deb9u8 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.0.8-2+deb9u11 | vulnerable |
| buster | 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u4 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 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+git230720-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tiff | source | (unstable) | 4.5.1+git230720-2 | | | 1056751 |
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
[stretch] - tiff <postponed> (Minor issue; OOM DoS)
[jessie] - tiff <postponed> (Minor issue; OOM DoS)