tiff vulnerabilities

20 March 2018

tiff vulnerabilities

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

• 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 16.04 LTS

libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.3

libtiff5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libtiff-tools - 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.8

libtiff5 - 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.8

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-2016-10266
• CVE-2016-10267
• CVE-2016-10268
• CVE-2016-10269
• CVE-2016-10371
• CVE-2017-10688
• CVE-2017-11335
• CVE-2017-12944
• CVE-2017-13726
• CVE-2017-13727
• CVE-2017-18013
• CVE-2017-7592
• CVE-2017-7593
• CVE-2017-7594
• CVE-2017-7595
• CVE-2017-7596
• CVE-2017-7597
• CVE-2017-7598
• CVE-2017-7599
• CVE-2017-7600
• CVE-2017-7601
• CVE-2017-7602
• CVE-2017-9403
• CVE-2017-9404
• CVE-2017-9815
• CVE-2017-9936
• CVE-2018-5784