CVE-2023-3576: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

October 4, 2023 (updated November 7, 2023)

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.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3576
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219340
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3576

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