CVE-2023-3576

Publication date 4 October 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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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Why is this CVE negligible priority?

Only a memory leak in the tiffcrop command-line tool

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.7
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.11
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm14
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm11

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Notes

mdeslaur

memory leak in tiffcrop command line tool

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
tiff	Other: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/475 Upstream: 1d5b118

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6512-1
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
23 November 2023