# CVE-2023-3428: Imagemagick: heap-buffer-overflow in coders/tiff.c

> A heap-based buffer overflow in ImageMagick allows local attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF file.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 4 Oct 2023
- **Updated:** 20 Nov 2025
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3428, GHSA-c2rg-gpv2-725v, JLSEC-2026-908, OESA-2023-1442, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-3428, openSUSE-SU-2024:13030-1

## What is CVE-2023-3428?

CVE-2023-3428 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, published on 4 Oct 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write), CWE-122 (Heap-based Buffer Overflow)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-3428?

It affects 3 products.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `ImageMagick` | openSUSE:Tumbleweed | All versions | 7.1.1.12-1.1 |

Products: Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Imagemagick Imagemagick.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-3428?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2023-3428 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3428 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux

- [CVE-2023-34152](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-34152/): Command injection in ImageMagick (critical 9.8)
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- [CVE-2022-45152](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-45152/): Moodle blind Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in LTI provider library (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2022-24882](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24882/): Server side NTLM does not properly check parameters in FreeRDP (critical 9.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-3428 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-3428 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, published on 4 Oct 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3428 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3428/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3428/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3428
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3428
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-3428

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3428/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.