CVE-2023-3428

Publication date 29 June 2023

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick. This issue may allow a local attacker to trick the user into opening a specially crafted file, resulting in an application crash and denial of service.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	25.10 questing	Fixed 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6ubuntu1
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6ubuntu1
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6ubuntu1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6ubuntu1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6ubuntu1
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6ubuntu0.23.04.1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.10.5
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.3+esm2
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.2 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6200-1
ImageMagick vulnerabilities
4 July 2023