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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3864-1
January 22, 2019
tiff vulnerabilities
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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
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3864-1
CVE-2018-10963, CVE-2018-17100, CVE-2018-17101, CVE-2018-18557,
CVE-2018-18661, CVE-2018-7456, CVE-2018-8905
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.9-6ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10
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