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CVE-2023-6277

Published: Nov 24, 2023

Modified: Jan 22, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

An out-of-memory flaw was found in libtiff. Passing a crafted tiff file to TIFFOpen() API may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a craft input with size smaller than 379 KB.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	All versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	All versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	All versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	All versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	All versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	All versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6277

vdb-entry

x_refsource_REDHAT

issue-tracking

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/614

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/545

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