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USN-5743-2: LibTIFF vulnerability

1 December 2022

LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • tiff - Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library

Details

USN-5743-1 fixed a vulnerability in LibTIFF. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.

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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-5743-1: libtiff5, libtiff-doc, libtiffxx5, libtiff-opengl, libtiff5-dev, libtiff-tools, tiff
  • USN-5841-1: libtiff5, libtiff5-alt-dev, libtiff-doc, libtiffxx5, libtiff-opengl, libtiff4-dev, libtiff5-dev, libtiff-tools, tiff