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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2023-3164 json

Heap-buffer-overflow in extractimagesection()

published 2023-11-02 3 y ago modified 2026-07-25 3 mo ago also EUVD-2023-43847 , JLSEC-2025-314

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability was found in LibTIFF, in extractImageSection() at tools/tiffcrop.c:7916 and tools/tiffcrop.c:7801. This flaw allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted tiff file.

Patch / fix

  • julia Libtiff_jll 4.6.0+0
  • libtiff libtiff 4.6.0
  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13 4.7.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3164

  • tiff Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.13
  • tiff Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.9
  • tiff Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu2.1
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm13
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm16
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-3164

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • tiff SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 +7 more 4.0.9-150000.45.44.1
  • tiff SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 4.0.9-44.83.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:2028-2SUSE-SU-2024:2028-1SUSE-SU-2024:1892-1

  • libtiff CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 4.6.0-5

azure linux advisories AZL-31765AZL-34952

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-3164 updated cvss 5.5

libtiff: heap-buffer-overflow in extractImageSection()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libtiff
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libtiff, libtiff-tools, compat-libtiff3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libtiff, libtiff-tools, compat-libtiff3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 libtiff, libtiff-tools
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Libtiff_jll
<4.6.0+0
4.6.0+0

Affected products

  • n/a libtiff
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Fedora Fedora

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

Sources

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