CVE-2023-30774
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedA vulnerability was found in the libtiff library. This flaw causes a heap buffer overflow issue via the TIFFTAG_INKNAMES and TIFFTAG_NUMBEROFINKS values.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysisThe program reads or writes outside the bounds of an allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory. With crafted input an attacker can overwrite control data and, with effort, redirect execution to their own code. Remediation ranges from bounds checking and safe library functions to compiler mitigations, usually alongside a careful audit of the surrounding code.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data>= 3.5.1, <= 4.4.0< 14.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped14.1
LibTIFF 4.5.0 or later (or the version included in macOS 14.1+)
- 1. Identify the current version of libtiff installed on the system using package manager commands (e.g., `dpkg -l | grep tiff`, `rpm -qa | grep tiff`, or `tiffinfo -version`).
- 2. For Linux systems: Update the package repository and upgrade libtiff to version 4.5.0 or later using the appropriate package manager (e.g., `apt-get update && apt-get install libtiff5` for Debian/Ubuntu, or `yum update libtiff` for RHEL/CentOS).
- 3. For macOS systems: Upgrade to macOS 14.1 (Sonoma) or later which includes the patched libtiff version.
- 4. For embedded systems or systems using static libtiff: Rebuild the application with libtiff 4.5.0 or later source code from https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/releases.
- 5. Verify the fix by checking the updated version: `tiffinfo -version` or similar command should show version 4.5.0 or higher.
- 6. Test critical image processing workflows to confirm functionality is maintained after the upgrade.
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