CVE-2023-3195

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-06-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-121

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow issue was found in ImageMagick's coders/tiff.c. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the user into opening a specially crafted malicious tiff file, causing an application to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux: 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 37, 38
ImageMagick: before 6.9.12-26; from 7.1.1-0 before 7.1.1-10 — fixed in 6.9.12-26, 7.1.1-10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.12-26, 7.1.1-10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3195
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214141
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f620340935777b28fa3f7b0ed7ed6bd86946934c
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/85a370c79afeb45a97842b0959366af5236e9023
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/45DUUXYMAEEAW55GSLAXN25VPKCRAIDA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4UFQJCYJ23HWHNDOVKBHZQ7HCXXL6MM3/
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/29/1
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3195
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214141
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f620340935777b28fa3f7b0ed7ed6bd86946934c
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/85a370c79afeb45a97842b0959366af5236e9023
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/45DUUXYMAEEAW55GSLAXN25VPKCRAIDA/

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