USN-3864-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities
22 January 2019
LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- tiff - Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library
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 versions:
Ubuntu 18.10
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Related notices
- USN-3906-2: libtiff-tools, libtiff4, tiff