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Ubuntu 12.04 ESM USN-3906-2 Moderate: LibTIFF Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
LibTIFF security notice issued, detailing necessary updates for Ubuntu distributions. It's crucial to protect your system from potential vulnerabilities.
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:

USN-3906-1 and USN-3864-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in LibTIFF.

This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory 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.

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
  libtiff-tools                   3.9.5-2ubuntu1.12
  libtiff4                        3.9.5-2ubuntu1.12

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3906-2

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3906-1

  CVE-2018-10779, CVE-2018-12900, CVE-2018-1710, CVE-2018-17100,

  CVE-2018-17101, CVE-2018-18557, CVE-2019-6128, CVE-2019-7663

March 18, 2019

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