CVE-2023-3164: Heap-buffer-overflow in extractimagesection()

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-11-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-120

Description

A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability was found in LibTIFF, in extractImageSection() at tools/tiffcrop.c:7916 and tools/tiffcrop.c:7801. This flaw allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted tiff file.

Affected products

libtiff: before 4.6.0 — fixed in 4.6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: libtiff 4.6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3164
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213531
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/542
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3164
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213531
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/542

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