CVE-2023-1916: Out-of-bounds Read

April 10, 2023 (updated December 23, 2023)

A flaw was found in tiffcrop, a program distributed by the libtiff package. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to an out-of-bounds read in the extractImageSection function in tools/tiffcrop.c, resulting in a denial of service and limited information disclosure. This issue affects libtiff versions 4.x.

References

gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/536
gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/536,
gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/537
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1916

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