tiff vulnerabilities

22 January 2019

tiff vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• 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 18.10

libtiff-tools - 4.0.9-6ubuntu0.1

libtiff5 - 4.0.9-6ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

libtiff-tools - 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1

libtiff5 - 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5

libtiff5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libtiff-tools - 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10

libtiff5 - 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10

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

• CVE-2018-10963
• CVE-2018-17100
• CVE-2018-17101
• CVE-2018-18557
• CVE-2018-18661
• CVE-2018-7456
• CVE-2018-8905