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CVE-2013-4243

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and...

6.8 MediumFix available

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Exploit likelihood

7.17%Up 1.9 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.8

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Record
CVE-2013-4243
CVSS 2.0
6.8 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Record
CVE-2013-4243
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2013-4147 No score

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Record
EUVD-2013-4147
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-4mjh-684p-r652 No score

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and...

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Record
GHSA-4mjh-684p-r652
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Record
CVE-2013-4243
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2013-4243 No score

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4243
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVMGASA-2013-0291 No score

Updated libtiff package fixes security vulnerability

A possible heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the readgifimage function in gif2tiff, a tool to convert GIF images to TIFF. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted GIF file that, when processed by gif2tiff, would cause gif2tiff to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running gif2tiff (CVE-2013-4243).

Record
MGASA-2013-0291
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-2013-4243 No score

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4243
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 4.0.3-9
4.0.3-9
tiff
Debian:13
 before 4.0.3-9
4.0.3-9
tiff
Debian:14
 before 4.0.3-9
4.0.3-9
tiff
Debian:6.0
 before 3.9.4-5+squeeze11, plus listed versions
3.9.4-53.9.4-5+squeeze13.9.4-5+squeeze103.9.4-5+squeeze23.9.4-5+squeeze3
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3.9.4-5+squeeze43.9.4-5+squeeze53.9.4-5+squeeze63.9.4-5+squeeze73.9.4-5+squeeze83.9.4-5+squeeze9
3.9.4-5+squeeze11
tiff
Debian:7
 before 4.0.2-6+deb7u3, plus listed versions
4.0.2-64.0.2-6+deb7u14.0.2-6+deb7u2
4.0.2-6+deb7u3
libtiff
Mageia:2
 before 4.0.1-2.9.mga2
4.0.1-2.9.mga2
libtiff
Mageia:3
 before 4.0.3-4.3.mga3
4.0.3-4.3.mga3
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 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
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
0:3.9.4-10.el6_5
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
libtiff-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
0:3.8.2-19.el5_10
tiff
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
 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
 before 4.0.7-1.1
4.0.7-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
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In short

CVE-2013-4243 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.8) in Libtiff, published September 10, 2013. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 7.17%, the 94th percentile. Fixed in tiff 4.0.3-9.

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