Memory leak in LibTIFF - CVE-2023-3576

 

Memory leak in LibTIFF - CVE-2023-3576

Published: July 27, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU78727
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3576
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak in tools/tiffcrop.c when handling TIFF files. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.


Affected software

LibTIFF
Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Oracle Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher
openSUSE Leap Micro
Anolis OS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Ubuntu
SUSE Package Hub 15
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Data Lakehouse
OpenShift Logging
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications
libtiff5 (Ubuntu package)
libtiff-tools (Ubuntu package)
libtiff
libtiff-devel
tiff-debuginfo
tiff-debugsource
tiff
libtiff5-debuginfo
libtiff5
libtiff5-debuginfo-32bit
libtiff5-32bit
libtiff-devel-32bit
libtiff5-32bit-debuginfo
tiff (Debian package)
libtiff-debugsource
libtiff-debuginfo
libtiff-help
libtiff (Red Hat package)
libtiff-doc
libtiff-static
libtiff-tools
Datacap

How to mitigate CVE-2023-3576

Install updates from vendor's website.

LibTIFF - update to 4.5.1
Data Lakehouse - update to 1.1.0.0
OpenShift Logging - update to 5.8.1
libtiff5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.11, 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.7
libtiff-tools (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.11, 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.7
libtiff - addressed in versions 4.0.3-35.43, 4.4.0-4
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
tiff (Debian package) - addressed in versions 4.2.0-1+deb11u5, 4.5.0-6+deb12u1
libtiff - update to 4.3.0-15
libtiff-debugsource - update to 4.3.0-15
libtiff-debuginfo - update to 4.3.0-15
libtiff-devel - update to 4.3.0-15
libtiff-help - update to 4.3.0-15
libtiff (Red Hat package) - update to 4.4.0-10.el9
libtiff-doc - update to 4.4.0-10.0.1
libtiff-static - update to 4.4.0-10.0.1
libtiff-devel - update to 4.4.0-10.0.1
libtiff - update to 4.4.0-10.0.1
libtiff-tools - update to 4.4.0-10.0.1
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.8.3
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - addressed in versions 5.0.9, 9.1.0
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications - update to 6.2
Datacap - update to 9.1.9.0.4

External References

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