USN-4755-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities
25 February 2021
Several security issues were fixed in LibTIFF.
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 20.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-5841-1: libtiff-doc, libtiffxx5, libtiff5, libtiff-tools, tiff, libtiff4-dev, libtiff5-alt-dev, libtiff-opengl, libtiff5-dev