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USN-6163-1: pano13 vulnerabilities

14 June 2023

pano13 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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It was discovered that pano13 did not properly validate the prefix provided
for PTcrop's output. An attacker could use this issue to cause pano13 to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-20307)

It was discovered that pano13 did not properly handle certain crafted TIFF
images. An attacker could use this issue to cause pano13 to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-33293)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

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

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