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Ubuntu 21.10: USN-5421-1 Critical: libtiff Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Debian has addressed vulnerabilities related to OpenSSL, implementing essential patches to mitigate risks of data exposure and system breaches.
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 images.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash,

resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affects

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-35522)

Chintan Shah discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled memory when

handling certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to

cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute

arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0561, CVE-2022-0562, CVE-2022-0891)

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain images.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash,

resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affects

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 21.10. (CVE-2022-0865)

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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 21.10:
   libtiff-tools                   4.3.0-1ubuntu0.1
   libtiff5                        4.3.0-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   libtiff-tools                   4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.3
   libtiff5                        4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.3

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

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
   libtiff-tools                   4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm1
   libtiff5                        4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm1

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
   libtiff-tools                   4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm1
   libtiff5                        4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm1

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5421-1

  CVE-2020-35522, CVE-2022-0561, CVE-2022-0562, CVE-2022-0865,

  CVE-2022-0891

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Topics Covered

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Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.3.0-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.9-5ubuntu0.5

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