An update of the libtiff package has been released.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-255 advisory.

    LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in tiffcrop in tools/tiffcrop.c:3488, allowing attackers to cause     a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is     available with commit afaabc3e. (CVE-2023-0795)

    LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in tiffcrop in tools/tiffcrop.c:3592, allowing attackers to cause     a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is     available with commit afaabc3e. (CVE-2023-0796)

    LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in tiffcrop in libtiff/tif_unix.c:368, invoked by     tools/tiffcrop.c:2903 and tools/tiffcrop.c:6921, allowing attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a     crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is available with commit afaabc3e.
    (CVE-2023-0797)

    LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in tiffcrop in tools/tiffcrop.c:3400, allowing attackers to cause     a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is     available with commit afaabc3e. (CVE-2023-0798)

    LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds read in tiffcrop in tools/tiffcrop.c:3701, allowing attackers to cause     a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is     available with commit afaabc3e. (CVE-2023-0799)

    LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in tiffcrop in tools/tiffcrop.c:3724, allowing attackers to cause     a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is     available with commit 33aee127. (CVE-2023-0802)

    LibTIFF 4.4.0 has an out-of-bounds write in tiffcrop in tools/tiffcrop.c:3516, allowing attackers to cause     a denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file. For users that compile libtiff from sources, the fix is     available with commit 33aee127. (CVE-2023-0803)

    libtiff 4.5.0 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via /libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:8499. Incorrect updating of     buffer size after rotateImage() in tiffcrop cause heap-buffer-overflow and SEGV. (CVE-2023-25433)

    libtiff 4.5.0 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via extractContigSamplesBytes() at     /libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:3215. (CVE-2023-25434)

    libtiff 4.5.0 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via extractContigSamplesShifted8bits() at     /libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:3753. (CVE-2023-25435)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0753-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2023-25435: Heap-buffer-overflow in extractContigSamplesShifted8bits() in tiffcrop.c (bsc#1212607).
    - CVE-2023-52356: Segment fault in libtiff in TIFFReadRGBATileExt() leading to denial of service     (bsc#1219213).


    Other bugfixes:

    - Fixed tiff build issue on s390x as test 12 test_directory fails (bsc#1236834).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - libtiff 4.5.0 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via extractContigSamplesShifted8bits() at     /libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c:3753. (CVE-2023-25435)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
203794	Photon OS 3.0: Libtiff PHSA-2023-3.0-0607	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	7/24/2024	7/24/2024	medium
178609	Amazon Linux 2023 : libtiff, libtiff-devel, libtiff-static (ALAS2023-2023-255)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	7/20/2023	3/4/2025	high
204506	Photon OS 4.0: Libtiff PHSA-2023-4.0-0417	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	7/24/2024	7/24/2024	high
216964	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2025:0753-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/1/2025	3/1/2025	high
226660	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-25435	Nessus	Misc.	3/5/2025	3/5/2025	medium
203526	Photon OS 5.0: Libtiff PHSA-2023-5.0-0044	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	7/23/2024	7/23/2024	medium

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