CVE-2023-1916

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  "id": "CVE-2023-1916",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2023-04-10T22:15:09.223",
  "lastModified": "2026-11-02T23:17:12.800",
  "vulnStatus": "Modified",
  "cveTags": [],
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      "value": "A flaw was found in tiffcrop, a program distributed by the libtiff package. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to an out-of-bounds read in the extractImageSection function in tools/tiffcrop.c, resulting in a denial of service and limited information disclosure. This issue affects libtiff versions 4.x."
    }
  ],
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