CVE-2023-3164: Libtiff

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability was found in LibTIFF, in extractImageSection() at tools/tiffcrop.c:7916 and tools/tiffcrop.c:7801. This flaw allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted tiff file.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: before 4.6.0 (fixed in 4.6.0)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2023-11-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.