tiff vulnerabilities

19 July 2017

tiff vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

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

USN-3212-1 and USN-3212-2 fixed a vulnerabilitiy in LibTIFF. This update provides a subset of corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory 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 12.04 ESM

libtiff-tools - 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.10

libtiff4 - 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.10

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

• USN-3212-1
• CVE-2015-7554
• CVE-2015-8668
• CVE-2016-10092
• CVE-2016-3623
• CVE-2016-3624
• CVE-2016-3632
• CVE-2016-3990
• CVE-2016-3991
• CVE-2016-5321
• CVE-2016-5322
• CVE-2016-8331
• CVE-2016-9453
• CVE-2016-9533
• CVE-2016-9534
• CVE-2016-9536
• CVE-2016-9537