ImageMagick Heap-based Buffer Overflow in tiff.c (CVE-2023-3428)
CVE-2023-3428 Published on October 4, 2023
Imagemagick: heap-buffer-overflow in coders/tiff.c
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick. This issue may allow a local attacker to trick the user into opening a specially crafted file, resulting in an application crash and denial of service.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-3428 is exploitable with local system access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public.
Weakness Type
Heap-based Buffer Overflow
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().
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Affected Versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:Exploit Probability
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