CVE-2023-3164
A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability was found in LibTIFF, in extractImageSection() at tools/tiffcrop.c:7916 and tools/tiffcrop.c:7801.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.32%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.32% probability · 25th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-120, CWE-787
- Affected
- libtiff/libtiff · redhat/enterprise linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 0.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3164Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213531Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/542Issue Tracking
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3164Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213531Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/542Issue Tracking
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.