1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5923-1

USN-5923-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Publication date

6 March 2023

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in LibTIFF.

Releases

Packages

  • tiff - Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library

Details

It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to read out of bounds when
processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop tool. If a user
were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2023-0795, CVE-2023-0796, CVE-2023-0797,
CVE-2023-0798, CVE-2023-0799)

It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to write out of bounds when
processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop tool. If a user
were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (

It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to read out of bounds when
processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop tool. If a user
were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2023-0795, CVE-2023-0796, CVE-2023-0797,
CVE-2023-0798, CVE-2023-0799)

It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to write out of bounds when
processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop tool. If a user
were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0800,
CVE-2023-0801, CVE-2023-0802, CVE-2023-0803, CVE-2023-0804)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.10 kinetic libtiff5 –  4.4.0-4ubuntu3.3
libtiff-tools –  4.4.0-4ubuntu3.3
22.04 jammy libtiff5 –  4.3.0-6ubuntu0.4
libtiff-tools –  4.3.0-6ubuntu0.4
20.04 focal libtiff5 –  4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.8
libtiff-tools –  4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.8
18.04 bionic libtiff5 –  4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10
libtiff-tools –  4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10
16.04 xenial libtiff5 –  4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm10  
libtiff-tools –  4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm10  
14.04 trusty libtiff5 –  4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm7  
libtiff-tools –  4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm7  

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