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tiff — security advisory
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.
- Products
- tiff
- Affected versions
- 4.5.0-6, 4.5.0-6+deb12u1, 4.5.0-6+deb12u2, 4.5.0-6+deb12u3, 4.5.0-6+deb12u4, 4.5.1+git230720-1, 4.5.1+git230720-2, 4.5.1+git230720-3, 4.5.1+git230720-4, 4.5.1+git230720-5, 4.5.1-1, 4.5.1~rc3-1, 4.6.0-1, 4.6.0-2, 4.7.0-1, 4.7.0-2, 4.7.0-3, 4.7.0-4, 4.7.0-5, 4.7.1-1, 4.7.1-2, 4.7.1-3, 4.7.2-1
- Fixed versions
- 4.7.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-6228
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-6228
tiff
Fixed versions: Not specified
tiff
Fixed versions: 4.7.0-1
tiff
Fixed versions: 4.7.0-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-26T18:01:33.694208913Z",
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