USN-5743-1

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5743-1
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/USN-5743-1.json
Related
Published
2022-11-24T17:02:39.270760Z
Modified
2022-11-24T17:02:39.270760Z
Summary
tiff vulnerability
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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / tiff

Package

Name
tiff

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0The exact introduced commit is unknown
Fixed
4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm8

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "libtiff5": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm8",
            "libtiff-doc": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm8",
            "libtiff-opengl": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm8",
            "libtiff-tools": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm8",
            "libtiffxx5": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm8",
            "libtiff5-dev": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm8"
        }
    ]
}