USN-3606-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

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 17.10

• libtiff-tools - 4.0.8-5ubuntu0.1
• libtiff5 - 4.0.8-5ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4
• libtiff5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4

Ubuntu 14.04

• libtiff-tools - 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9
• libtiff5 - 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9

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

References

• CVE-2016-3186
• CVE-2016-5102
• CVE-2016-5318
• CVE-2017-11613
• CVE-2017-12944
• CVE-2017-17095
• CVE-2017-18013
• CVE-2017-5563
• CVE-2017-9117
• CVE-2017-9147
• CVE-2017-9935
• CVE-2018-5784

Related notices

• USN-3602-1: libtiff5-dev, libtiff5, libtiffxx5, libtiff-opengl, libtiff-doc, tiff, libtiff-tools, libtiff4-dev, libtiff5-alt-dev