CVE-2023-6228 LOW

CVE-2023-6228: Libtiff: heap-based buffer overflow in cpstriptotile() in tools/tiffcp.c

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Weakness CWE-787
Published December 18, 2023
Last update November 21, 2025
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CVSS base score

3.3/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

An issue was found in the tiffcp utility distributed by the libtiff package where a crafted TIFF file on processing may cause a heap-based buffer overflow leads to an application crash.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 18, 2023 CVE published
November 21, 2025 Record updated