Buffer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2023-25433

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Buffer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2023-25433

Published: July 16, 2023 / Updated: March 3, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU78285
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4 BT: 2.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-25433
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing TIFF images within the rotateImage()  function in /libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted image to the application, trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

LibTIFF
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
openSUSE Leap Micro
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Ubuntu
SUSE Package Hub 15
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
IBM Cloud Pak for Security
IBM Process Mining
Isolation Segment
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
libtiff-tools (Ubuntu package)
libtiff5 (Ubuntu package)
libtiff (Red Hat package)
libtiff-devel
tiff-debuginfo
tiff-debugsource
tiff
libtiff5-debuginfo
libtiff5
libtiff5-debuginfo-32bit
libtiff5-32bit
libtiff-devel-32bit
libtiff5-32bit-debuginfo
libtiff
libtiff-debugsource
libtiff-debuginfo
libtiff-help
libtiff6 (Ubuntu package)
Migration Toolkit for Containers
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
QRadar Suite
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Datacap
Business Automation Insights

How to mitigate CVE-2023-25433

Install updates from vendor's website.

LibTIFF - update to 4.5.1
libtiff-tools (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.9, 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.5, 4.5.0-5ubuntu1.1
libtiff5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.9, 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.5
Migration Toolkit for Containers - update to 1.8.4
QRadar Suite - update to 1.10.26.0
IBM Process Mining - update to 1.15.0 IF003
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management - update to 2.3 FP11
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - addressed in versions 2.7.25, 2.8.16, 2.9.12, 2.10.39
Isolation Segment - addressed in versions 2.11.38, 2.13.23, 3.0.16, 4.0.8
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs - addressed in versions 2.11.44, 2.13.26, 3.0.16, 4.0.8
libtiff (Red Hat package) - update to 4.0.9-32.el8_10
libtiff-devel - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.71.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
tiff-debuginfo - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.71.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
tiff-debugsource - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.71.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
tiff - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.71.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
libtiff5-debuginfo - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.71.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
libtiff5 - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.71.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
libtiff5-debuginfo-32bit - update to 4.0.9-44.71.1
libtiff5-32bit - addressed in versions 4.0.9-44.71.1, 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
libtiff-devel-32bit - update to 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
libtiff5-32bit-debuginfo - update to 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
libtiff - update to 4.3.0-14
libtiff-debugsource - update to 4.3.0-14
libtiff-debuginfo - update to 4.3.0-14
libtiff-devel - update to 4.3.0-14
libtiff-help - update to 4.3.0-14
libtiff6 (Ubuntu package) - update to 4.5.0-5ubuntu1.1
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.7.0
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - addressed in versions 4.13.48, 4.15.28
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - addressed in versions 5.0.9, 9.1.0
Datacap - update to 9.1.9.0.4
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 24.0.0-IF004, 24.0.1-IF001
Business Automation Insights - update to 24.0.0.0.1

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