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Ubuntu 22.10 USN-5923-1 Moderate: LibTIFF Denial Of Service Advisory

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2023
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Various Ubuntu editions encounter several LibTIFF security flaws, potentially leading to denial of service. It's crucial to patch your systems immediately!
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 could be made to read out of bounds when

processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop tool. If a user

were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker

could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a

denial of service. (CVE-2023-0795, CVE-2023-0796, CVE-2023-0797,

CVE-2023-0798, CVE-2023-0799)

It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to write out of bounds when

processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop tool. If a user

were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker

could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a

denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0800,

CVE-2023-0801, CVE-2023-0802, CVE-2023-0803, CVE-2023-0804)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue Ubuntu image processing LibTIFF

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10:
   libtiff-tools                   4.4.0-4ubuntu3.3
   libtiff5                        4.4.0-4ubuntu3.3

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   libtiff-tools                   4.3.0-6ubuntu0.4
   libtiff5                        4.3.0-6ubuntu0.4

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   libtiff-tools                   4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.8
   libtiff5                        4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.8

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
   libtiff-tools                   4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10
   libtiff5                        4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
   libtiff-tools                   4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm10
   libtiff5                        4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm10

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
   libtiff-tools                   4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm7
   libtiff5                        4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm7

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5923-1

  CVE-2023-0795, CVE-2023-0796, CVE-2023-0797, CVE-2023-0798,

  CVE-2023-0799, CVE-2023-0800, CVE-2023-0801, CVE-2023-0802,

  CVE-2023-0803, CVE-2023-0804

March 06, 2023

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue Ubuntu image processing LibTIFF

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.4.0-4ubuntu3.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.3.0-6ubuntu0.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.8
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10

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