CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2023-0798
LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in tiffcrop in tools/tiffcrop.c:3400, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit afaabc3e.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-125
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- libtiff:libtiff
References
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-0798.json
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/afaabc3e50d4e5d80a94143f7e3c997e7e410f68
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/492
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00026.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-31