tiff vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 18.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Software Description
- 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
- libtiff-tools - 4.0.9-6ubuntu0.1
- libtiff5 - 4.0.9-6ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libtiff-tools - 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1
- libtiff5 - 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5
- libtiff5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- libtiff-tools - 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10
- libtiff5 - 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.