tiff vulnerabilities

27 February 2017

tiff vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 16.10
• 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 16.10

libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-2ubuntu0.1

libtiff5 - 4.0.6-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1

libtiff5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libtiff-tools - 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6

libtiff5 - 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6

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-2016-10093
• CVE-2016-10094
• CVE-2016-3622
• CVE-2016-3623
• CVE-2016-3624
• CVE-2016-3632
• CVE-2016-3658
• CVE-2016-3945
• CVE-2016-3990
• CVE-2016-3991
• CVE-2016-5314
• CVE-2016-5315
• CVE-2016-5316
• CVE-2016-5317
• CVE-2016-5320
• CVE-2016-5321
• CVE-2016-5322
• CVE-2016-5323
• CVE-2016-5652
• CVE-2016-5875
• CVE-2016-6223
• CVE-2016-8331
• CVE-2016-9273
• CVE-2016-9297
• CVE-2016-9448
• CVE-2016-9453
• CVE-2016-9532
• CVE-2016-9533
• CVE-2016-9534
• CVE-2016-9535
• CVE-2016-9536
• CVE-2016-9537
• CVE-2016-9538
• CVE-2016-9539
• CVE-2016-9540
• CVE-2017-5225