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Ubuntu 16.10 USN-3212-1 Critical: LibTIFF Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey February 27, 2017
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Caution alert USN-7420-3 underscores vulnerabilities in LibPNG, necessitating patching due to critical image processing flaws.
LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Ubuntu Denial of Service image handling tiff library libtiff

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
  libtiff-tools                   4.0.6-2ubuntu0.1
  libtiff5                        4.0.6-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libtiff-tools                   4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1
  libtiff5                        4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libtiff-tools                   4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6
  libtiff5                        4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3212-1

CVE-2015-7554, CVE-2015-8668, CVE-2016-10092, CVE-2016-10093,

CVE-2016-10094, CVE-2016-3622, CVE-2016-3623, CVE-2016-3624,

CVE-2016-3632, CVE-2016-3658, CVE-2016-3945, CVE-2016-3990,

CVE-2016-3991, CVE-2016-5314, CVE-2016-5315, CVE-2016-5316,

CVE-2016-5317, CVE-2016-5320, CVE-2016-5321, CVE-2016-5322,

CVE-2016-5323, CVE-2016-5652, CVE-2016-5875, CVE-2016-6223,

CVE-2016-8331, CVE-2016-9273, CVE-2016-9297, CVE-2016-9448,

CVE-2016-9453, CVE-2016-9532, CVE-2016-9533, CVE-2016-9534,

CVE-2016-9535, CVE-2016-9536, CVE-2016-9537, CVE-2016-9538,

CVE-2016-9539, CVE-2016-9540, CVE-2017-5225

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February 27, 2017

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Ubuntu Denial of Service image handling tiff library libtiff

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.6-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6

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