Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2023-6277 |
CWE-ID | CWE-400 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Amazon Linux AMI Operating systems & Components / Operating system libtiff Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component |
Vendor | Amazon Web Services |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU85068
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6277
CWE-ID:
CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the TIFFOpen() API. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
MitigationUpdate the affected packages:
i686:Vulnerable software versions
libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.50.amzn1.i686
libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.50.amzn1.i686
libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.50.amzn1.i686
libtiff-4.0.3-35.50.amzn1.i686
src:
libtiff-4.0.3-35.50.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.50.amzn1.x86_64
libtiff-4.0.3-35.50.amzn1.x86_64
libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.50.amzn1.x86_64
libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.50.amzn1.x86_64
Amazon Linux AMI: All versions
libtiff: before 4.0.3-35.50
External linkshttp://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2024-1913.html
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.