USN-3212-3: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

USN-3212-3: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3212-3

19th July, 2017

tiff vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a
specially crafted file.

Software description

• tiff
  – Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library

Details

USN-3212-1 and USN-3212-2 fixed a vulnerabilitiy in LibTIFF. This update provides a subset of
corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed
images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libtiff4

3.9.5-2ubuntu1.10

libtiff-tools

3.9.5-2ubuntu1.10

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2015-7554,

CVE-2015-8668,

CVE-2016-10092,

CVE-2016-3623,

CVE-2016-3624,

CVE-2016-3632,

CVE-2016-3990,

CVE-2016-3991,

CVE-2016-5321,

CVE-2016-5322,

CVE-2016-8331,

CVE-2016-9453,

CVE-2016-9533,

CVE-2016-9534,

CVE-2016-9536,

CVE-2016-9537

Source: USN-3212-3: LibTIFF vulnerabilities