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OESA-2023-1857 (CVE-2023-6228)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-11-24 11:06 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:06 – Source website

Summary

libtiff security update

Details

This provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. The latest version of the TIFF specification is available on-line in several different formats.And contains command-line programs for manipulating TIFF format image files using the libtiff library.

Security Fix(es):

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

Reference: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/606(CVE-2023-6228)

Severity

3.3 (Low)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6228	ADVISORY

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CVE-2023-6228 (GCVE-0-2023-6228)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-18 13:43 – Updated: 2025-11-21 06:24

Title

Libtiff: heap-based buffer overflow in cpstriptotile() in tools/tiffcp.c

Summary

An issue was found in the tiffcp utility distributed by the libtiff package where a crafted TIFF file on processing may cause a heap-based buffer overflow leads to an application crash.

Severity

3.3 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

redhat CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1036 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5079	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6228	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240995	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

5 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Unaffected: 0:4.0.9-32.el8_10 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Unaffected: 0:4.4.0-12.el9 , < * (rpm) cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Date Public

2023-09-07 00:00

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.

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