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CVE-2013-4231

Multiple buffer overflows in libtiff before 4.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of...

4.3 MediumFix available

Multiple buffer overflows in libtiff before 4.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) extension block in a GIF image or (2) GIF raster image to tools/gif2tiff.c or (3) a long filename for a TIFF image to tools/rgb2ycbcr.c. NOTE: vectors 1 and 3 are disputed by Red Hat, which states that the input cannot exceed the allocated buffer size.

Exploit likelihood

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What each source reports

NVD Score used 4.3

Multiple buffer overflows in libtiff before 4.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) extension block in a GIF image or (2) GIF raster image to tools/gif2tiff.c or (3) a long filename for a TIFF image to tools/rgb2ycbcr.c. NOTE: vectors 1 and 3 are disputed by Red Hat, which states that the input cannot exceed the allocated buffer size.

Record
CVE-2013-4231
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Multiple buffer overflows in libtiff before 4.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) extension block in a GIF image or (2) GIF raster image to tools/gif2tiff.c or (3) a long filename for a TIFF image to tools/rgb2ycbcr.c. NOTE: vectors 1 and 3 are disputed by Red Hat, which states that the input cannot exceed the allocated buffer size.

Record
CVE-2013-4231
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2013-4135 No score

Multiple buffer overflows in libtiff before 4.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) extension block in a GIF image or (2) GIF raster image to tools/gif2tiff.c or (3) a long filename for a TIFF image to tools/rgb2ycbcr.c. NOTE: vectors 1 and 3 are disputed by Red Hat, which states that the input cannot exceed the allocated buffer size.

Record
EUVD-2013-4135
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-4qfr-3jpc-g89j No score

Multiple buffer overflows in libtiff before 4.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of...

Multiple buffer overflows in libtiff before 4.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) extension block in a GIF image or (2) GIF raster image to tools/gif2tiff.c or (3) a long filename for a TIFF image to tools/rgb2ycbcr.c. NOTE: vectors 1 and 3 are disputed by Red Hat, which states that the input cannot exceed the allocated buffer size.

Record
GHSA-4qfr-3jpc-g89j
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBELL-CVE-2013-4231 4.3

CVE-2013-4231 does not affect BellSoft software

Record
BELL-CVE-2013-4231
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

Multiple buffer overflows in libtiff before 4.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) extension block in a GIF image or (2) GIF raster image to tools/gif2tiff.c or (3) a long filename for a TIFF image to tools/rgb2ycbcr.c. NOTE: vectors 1 and 3 are disputed by Red Hat, which states that the input cannot exceed the allocated buffer size.

Record
CVE-2013-4231
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2013-4231 No score

Multiple buffer overflows in libtiff before 4.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) extension block in a GIF image or (2) GIF raster image to tools/gif2tiff.c or (3) a long filename for a TIFF image to tools/rgb2ycbcr.c. NOTE: vectors 1 and 3 are disputed by Red Hat, which states that the input cannot exceed the allocated buffer size.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4231
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2013-0258 No score

Updated libtiff packagess fix multiple security vulnerabilities

Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Pedro Ribeiro discovered a buffer overflow flaw in rgb2ycbcr, a tool to convert RGB color, greyscale, or bi-level TIFF images to YCbCr images, and multiple buffer overflow flaws in gif2tiff, a tool to convert GIF images to TIFF. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted TIFF or GIF file that, when processed by rgb2ycbcr and gif2tiff respectively, would cause the tool to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the tool (CVE-2013-4231)

Pedro Ribeiro discovered a use-after-free flaw in the t2p_readwrite_pdf_image() function in tiff2pdf, a tool for converting a TIFF image to a PDF document. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted TIFF file that, when processed by tiff2pdf, would cause tiff2pdf to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running tiff2pdf (CVE-2013-4232).

Record
MGASA-2013-0258
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10554-1 No score

libtiff-devel-32bit-4.0.7-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the libtiff-devel-32bit-4.0.7-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10554-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2013-4231 No score

Multiple buffer overflows in libtiff before 4.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) extension block in a GIF image or (2) GIF raster image to tools/gif2tiff.c or (3) a long filename for a TIFF image to tools/rgb2ycbcr.c. NOTE: vectors 1 and 3 are disputed by Red Hat, which states that the input cannot exceed the allocated buffer size.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4231
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-2205-1 No score

tiff vulnerabilities

Pedro Ribeiro discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images when using the gif2tiff tool. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubunu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2013-4231)

Pedro Ribeiro discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images when using the tiff2pdf tool. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubunu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2013-4232)

Murray McAllister discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images when using the gif2tiff tool. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2013-4243)

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images when using the gif2tiff tool. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubunu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2013-4244)

Record
USN-2205-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
tiff
Debian:12
before 4.0.3-2
4.0.3-2
tiff
Debian:13
before 4.0.3-2
4.0.3-2
tiff
Debian:14
before 4.0.3-2
4.0.3-2
tiff
Debian:6.0
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 3.9.4-5+squeeze10, plus listed versions
3.9.4-53.9.4-5+squeeze13.9.4-5+squeeze23.9.4-5+squeeze33.9.4-5+squeeze4
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3.9.4-5+squeeze53.9.4-5+squeeze63.9.4-5+squeeze73.9.4-5+squeeze83.9.4-5+squeeze9
3.9.4-5+squeeze10
tiff
Debian:7
From an advisory covering 3 CVEs
before 4.0.2-6+deb7u2, plus listed versions
4.0.2-64.0.2-6+deb7u1
4.0.2-6+deb7u2
libtiff
Mageia:2
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.0.1-2.7.mga2
4.0.1-2.7.mga2
libtiff
Mageia:3
From an advisory covering 2 CVEs
before 4.0.3-4.1.mga3
4.0.3-4.1.mga3
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
From an advisory covering 7 CVEs
before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
tiff
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.1, plus listed versions
4.0.2-4ubuntu34.0.3-5ubuntu14.0.3-64.0.3-6ubuntu14.0.3-7
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.1
tiff
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 49 CVEs
before 4.0.7-1.1
4.0.7-1.1

History

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In short

CVE-2013-4231 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Libtiff, published August 22, 2013. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 7.40%, the 94th percentile. Fixed in tiff 4.0.3-2.

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