CVE-2023-3618MediumMicrosoft CVSS 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2023-3618

Published
September 3, 2025
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products2

  • azl3 libtiff 4.6.0-6 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 libtiff 4.5.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates

2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update—
—Security Update4.5.1-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2023-3618

EchelonGraph score
7.5 HIGH
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

A flaw was found in libtiff. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to a segmentation fault due to a buffer overflow in the Fax3Encode function in libtiff/tif_fax3.c, resulting in a denial of service.

Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2023-3618, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)