CVE-2023-1916: Libtiff

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in tiffcrop, a program distributed by the libtiff package. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to an out-of-bounds read in the extractImageSection function in tools/tiffcrop.c, resulting in a denial of service and limited information disclosure. This issue affects libtiff versions 4.x.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: from 4.0, up to and including 4.5.0

Published 2023-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.