[USN-5604-1] LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Rodrigo Figueiredo Zaiden rodrigo.zaiden at canonical.com
Thu Sep 8 21:19:22 UTC 2022


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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5604-1
September 08, 2022

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

- Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in LibTIFF.

Software Description:
- tiff: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library

Details:

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service,
or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-2867, CVE-2022-2869)

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-2868)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
   libtiff-opengl                  4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm3
   libtiff-tools                   4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm3
   libtiff5                        4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm3
   libtiffxx5                      4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm3

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
   libtiff-opengl                  4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm3
   libtiff-tools                   4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm3
   libtiff5                        4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm3
   libtiffxx5                      4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm3

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

References:
   https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5604-1
   CVE-2022-2867, CVE-2022-2868, CVE-2022-2869
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