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Ubuntu 22.10 USN-5743-2 Critical: LibTIFF Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A critical LibTIFF flaw enables remote adversaries to destabilize apps or run malicious scripts. Ensure Ubuntu machines are updated for security.
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-5743-1 fixed a vulnerability in LibTIFF. This update provides the

corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.

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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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10:
   libtiff-tools                   4.4.0-4ubuntu3.2
   libtiff5                        4.4.0-4ubuntu3.2

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   libtiff-tools                   4.3.0-6ubuntu0.3
   libtiff5                        4.3.0-6ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   libtiff-tools                   4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.7
   libtiff5                        4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.7

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
   libtiff-tools                   4.0.9-5ubuntu0.9
   libtiff5                        4.0.9-5ubuntu0.9

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

References

    https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5743-1

  CVE-2022-3970

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December 01, 2022

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Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.4.0-4ubuntu3.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.3.0-6ubuntu0.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.7
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.9-5ubuntu0.9

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