CVE-2023-1916

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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.

Affected products

libtiff: from 4.0 through 4.5.0

References

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/536%2C
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/537
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/536
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/536%2C
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/537
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844

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