Out-of-bounds write in LibTIFF - CVE-2023-30086

 

Out-of-bounds write in LibTIFF - CVE-2023-30086

Published: August 16, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU79569
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-2023-30086
CWE-ID: CWE-787
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 within the tiffcp() function in tiffcp.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application to trigger an out-of-bounds write and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

LibTIFF
Amazon Linux AMI
Oracle Solaris
Data Lakehouse
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
libtiff
Datacap

How to mitigate CVE-2023-30086

Install updates from vendor's website.

LibTIFF - update to 4.5.0
Data Lakehouse - update to 1.1.0.0
libtiff - update to 4.4.0-4
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.8.3
Datacap - update to 9.1.9.0.4

External References

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