CVE-2023-3428: Imagemagick: heap-buffer-overflow in coders/tiff.c

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: 2023-10-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-122

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick. This issue may allow a local attacker to trick the user into opening a specially crafted file, resulting in an application crash and denial of service.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux: 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: all versions
ImageMagick: before 7.1.1-19 — fixed in 7.1.1-19

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 7.1.1-19. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3428
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218369
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3428
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218369

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