CVE-2020-19143

Publication date 9 September 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Buffer Overflow in LibTiff v4.0.10 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the “TIFFVGetField” funtion in the component ‘libtiff/tif_dir.c’.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced in 4.0.10

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: 54ce8c5

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5084-1
LibTIFF vulnerability
21 September 2021