USN-3906-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

USN-3906-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

tiff vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• 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 18.10

libtiff-tools – 4.0.9-6ubuntu0.2

libtiff5 – 4.0.9-6ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

libtiff-tools – 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.2

libtiff5 – 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libtiff-tools – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.6

libtiff5 – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.6

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libtiff-tools – 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11

libtiff5 – 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11

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-2018-10779
• CVE-2018-12900
• CVE-2018-17000
• CVE-2018-19210
• CVE-2019-6128
• CVE-2019-7663

Source: USN-3906-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities