USN-3602-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities
USN-3602-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities tiff vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 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 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 versions: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libtiff-tools – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.3 libtiff5 – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.3 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS libtiff-tools – 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.8 libtiff5 – 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.8 To update your system, please follow these instructions: [ more… ]