A memory leak flaw was found in Libtiff's tiffcrop utility. This issue occurs when tiffcrop operates on a TIFF image file, allowing an attacker to pass a crafted TIFF image file to tiffcrop utility, which causes this memory leak issue, resulting an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6575 | vendor advisory |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3576 | third party advisory vdb entry |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219340 | third party advisory issue tracking |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00011.html |