LibTIFF tiffcrop heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF. It has been classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component tiffcrop. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-30774. Local access is required to approach this attack. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF (Image Processing Software) (unknown version). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component tiffcrop. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability was found in the libtiff library. This flaw causes a heap buffer overflow issue via the TIFFTAG_INKNAMES and TIFFTAG_NUMBEROFINKS values.

The weakness was disclosed 04/24/2023. It is possible to read the advisory at gitlab.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-30774 since 04/17/2023. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is available at gitlab.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 240052 (TencentOS Server 4: libtiff (TSSA-2024:0785)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (240052). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 240052
Nessus Name: TencentOS Server 4: libtiff (TSSA-2024:0785)

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

04/17/2023 🔍
04/24/2023 +7 days 🔍
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06/17/2025 +785 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: libtiff.org

Advisory: gitlab.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2023-30774 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-30774
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-227267
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 04/24/2023 10:37
Updated: 06/17/2025 14:15
Changes: 04/24/2023 10:37 (40), 03/14/2025 20:24 (27), 06/17/2025 14:15 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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