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Out-of-bounds Write

CVE-2023-6228

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

An issue was found in the tiffcp utility distributed by the libtiff package where a crafted TIFF file on processing may cause a Heap-based Buffer Overflow leads to an application crash. This vulnerability affects versions prior to v4.7.0rc1.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-787 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Out-of-bounds write vulnerability is a memory access bug that allows software to write data past the end or before the beginning of the intended buffer. This may result in the corruption of data, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published