Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 4, 2023· Updated Jan 22, 2026
Libtiff: memory leak in tiffcrop.c
CVE-2023-3576
Description
A memory leak flaw was found in Libtiff's tiffcrop utility. This issue occurs when tiffcrop operates on a TIFF image file, allowing an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to tiffcrop utility, which causes this memory leak issue, resulting an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service.
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Affected products
24cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb+ 4 more
- cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crbrange: 0:4.4.0-10.el9
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
- osv-coords18 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/libtiffpkg:rpm/almalinux/libtiff-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/libtiff-toolspkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5
< 4.4.0-10.el9+ 17 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.0-10.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.0-10.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.0-10.el9
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.71.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.71.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.71.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
No source-code context for this CVE — mechanics is only generated when we can read the actual fix diff. Without that, the four sections (root cause, attack vector, affected code, fix) would be speculation rather than analysis.
References
3- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6575mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3576mitrevdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitreissue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
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