CVE-2023-6228

Public on 2023-11-23

Modified on 2023-11-23

Description

An issue was found in the tiffcp utility distributed by the libtiff package. Processing a crafted TIFF file with tools/tifftcp may cause a heap-based buffer overflow, resulting in an application crash.

Severity

Low

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CVSS v3 Base Score

3.3

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	compat-libtiff3	Not Affected
Amazon Linux 1	libtiff	Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	libtiff	Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2023	libtiff	Not Affected

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	3.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD	CVSSv3	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2023-6228 Mitre: CVE-2023-6228