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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM USN-5523-1 Moderate: LibTIFF Denial of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple vulnerabilities in LibTIFF are addressed to mitigate DoS risks in Ubuntu systems with essential updates.
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 was not properly performing checks to

guarantee that allocated memory space existed, which could lead to a

NULL pointer dereference via a specially crafted file. An attacker

could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2022-0907, CVE-2022-0908)

It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly performing checks to

avoid division calculations where the denominator value was zero,

which could lead to an undefined behavior situation via a specially

crafted file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a

denial of service. (CVE-2022-0909)

It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly performing bounds

checks, which could lead to an out-of-bounds read via a specially

crafted file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a

denial of service or to expose sensitive info...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu memory protection LibTIFF

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
   libtiff-opengl                  4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm2
   libtiff-tools                   4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm2
   libtiff5                        4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm2
   libtiffxx5                      4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm2

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
   libtiff-opengl                  4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm2
   libtiff-tools                   4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm2
   libtiff5                        4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm2
   libtiffxx5                      4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm2

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5523-1

  CVE-2020-19131, CVE-2020-19144, CVE-2022-0907, CVE-2022-0908,

  CVE-2022-0909, CVE-2022-0924, CVE-2022-22844

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July 19, 2022

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security advisory denial of service Ubuntu memory protection LibTIFF

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