tiff vulnerabilities

5 July 2012

tiff vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Summary

The TIFF library 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 the TIFF library incorrectly handled certain malformed TIFF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2012-2088)

It was discovered that the tiff2pdf utility incorrectly handled certain malformed TIFF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2012-2113)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

libtiff-tools - 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1

libtiff4 - 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.10

libtiff-tools - 3.9.5-1ubuntu1.2

libtiff4 - 3.9.5-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 11.04

libtiff-tools - 3.9.4-5ubuntu6.2

libtiff4 - 3.9.4-5ubuntu6.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

libtiff-tools - 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.9

libtiff4 - 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.9

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

libtiff-tools - 3.8.2-7ubuntu3.12

libtiff4 - 3.8.2-7ubuntu3.12

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-2012-2088
• CVE-2012-2113