Resource exhaustion in LibTIFF - CVE-2023-6277

Vulnerability identifier: #VU85068

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4 BT: 6.6 [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

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.

LibTIFF
Amazon Linux AMI
visionOS
watchOS
macOS
Ubuntu
iPadOS
Apple iOS
tvOS
openEuler
Anolis OS
Fedora
libtiff5 (Ubuntu package)
libtiff-tools (Ubuntu package)
tkimg
libtiff
libtiff-debuginfo
libtiff-devel
libtiff-debugsource
libtiff-help
libtiff6 (Ubuntu package)
libtiff-tools
libtiff-opengl
libtiff-doc

Install updates from vendor's website.

visionOS - update to 1.3
watchOS - update to 10.6
macOS - addressed in versions 12.7.6 21H1320, 13.6.8 22G820, 14.6 23G80
iPadOS - addressed in versions 16.7.9 20H348, 17.6 21G80
Apple iOS - addressed in versions 16.7.9 20H348, 17.6 21G80
tvOS - update to 17.6
libtiff5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.12, 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8
libtiff-tools (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.12, 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8, 4.5.1+git230720-1ubuntu1.1
tkimg - addressed in versions 1.4.16-1.fc38, 1.4.16-1.fc39
libtiff - addressed in versions 4.0.3-35.50, 4.4.0-4
libtiff - update to 4.3.0-22
libtiff-debuginfo - update to 4.3.0-22
libtiff-devel - update to 4.3.0-22
libtiff-debugsource - update to 4.3.0-22
libtiff-help - update to 4.3.0-22
libtiff6 (Ubuntu package) - update to 4.5.1+git230720-1ubuntu1.1
libtiff-tools - update to 4.5.1-4
libtiff-opengl - update to 4.5.1-4
libtiff-devel - update to 4.5.1-4
libtiff - update to 4.5.1-4
libtiff-doc - update to 4.5.1-4

• 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

• Denial of service in libtiff
• Fedora 38 update for tkimg
• Fedora 39 update for tkimg
• Amazon Linux AMI update for libtiff
• Ubuntu update for tiff
• Ubuntu update for tiff
• openEuler update for libtiff
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Apple macOS Sonoma
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Apple macOS Monterey
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Apple macOS Ventura
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Apple iOS 17 and iPadOS 17
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Apple iOS 16 and iPadOS 16
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Apple tvOS
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Apple watchOS
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Apple visionOS
• Amazon Linux AMI update for libtiff
• Anolis OS update for libtiff