Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-1511-1 Critical: tiff2pdf Denial of Service

ubuntu

July 19, 2012

tiff2pdf could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

tiff2pdf 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:

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered that the tiff2pdf utility incorrectly

handled certain malformed TIFF images. If a user or automated system were

tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker

could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly

execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu exploitation tiff tiff2pdf

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libtiff-tools                   3.9.5-2ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 11.10:
  libtiff-tools                   3.9.5-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 11.04:
  libtiff-tools                   3.9.4-5ubuntu6.3

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libtiff-tools                   3.9.2-2ubuntu0.10

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
  libtiff-tools                   3.8.2-7ubuntu3.13

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.