#VU85068 Resource exhaustion in LibTIFF - CVE-2023-6277
Published: January 8, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU85068
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6277
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
LibTIFF
LibTIFF
Software vendor:
LibTIFF
LibTIFF
Description
The 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.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.
External links
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251311
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/614
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/545
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/d6bbe53a96b031ab8b53d20241825ddf9e8bf8f1
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/264a28eff71cf0038ba7b235238512fa594fa42f
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/abb4476fd2be87fc8ded3078e019f22f84ee0e8c