USN-6428-1

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    USN-6428-1

    Published: 11 Oct 2023Last Modified: 29 Jun 2026

    Summary: tiff vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to read out of bounds when processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop utility. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6428-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-1916

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: tiff

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/tiff?arch=source&distro=trusty%2Fesm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm10

    Affected versions

    4.0.2-4ubuntu3
    4.0.3-5ubuntu1
    4.0.3-6
    4.0.3-6ubuntu1
    4.0.3-7
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.1
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.2
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.3
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.4
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.7
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.8
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm1
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm2
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm3
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm4
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm5
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm6
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm7
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm8
    4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    USN-6428-1 | CVE-DB