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Ubuntu: 4158-1 Critical: LibTIFF Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey October 17, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Numerous LibTIFF vulnerabilities addressed in various Ubuntu releases, protecting system stability and user safety.
Several security issues were fixed in LibTIFF.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in LibTIFF.

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote code execution ubuntu tiff

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
  libtiff-tools                   4.0.10-4ubuntu0.1
  libtiff5                        4.0.10-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libtiff-tools                   4.0.9-5ubuntu0.3
  libtiff5                        4.0.9-5ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libtiff-tools                   4.0.6-1ubuntu0.7
  libtiff5                        4.0.6-1ubuntu0.7

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4158-1

CVE-2019-14973, CVE-2019-17546

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October 17, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote code execution ubuntu tiff

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.10-4ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.9-5ubuntu0.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.6-1ubuntu0.7

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