USN-3212-3: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3212-3

19th July, 2017

tiff vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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-3212-1 and USN-3212-2 fixed a vulnerabilitiy in LibTIFF. This update provides a subset of
corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libtiff4 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.10

libtiff-tools 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.10

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

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

References

CVE-2015-7554, CVE-2015-8668, CVE-2016-10092, CVE-2016-3623, CVE-2016-3624, CVE-2016-3632, CVE-2016-3990, CVE-2016-3991, CVE-2016-5321, CVE-2016-5322, CVE-2016-8331, CVE-2016-9453, CVE-2016-9533, CVE-2016-9534, CVE-2016-9536, CVE-2016-9537

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