USN-1498-1: tiff vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1498-1
5th July, 2012
tiff vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Summary
The TIFF library 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 the TIFF library incorrectly handled certain
malformed TIFF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the
application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code with user privileges. (CVE-2012-2088)
It was discovered that the tiff2pdf utility incorrectly handled certain
malformed TIFF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the
application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code with user privileges. (CVE-2012-2113)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
- libtiff4 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1
- libtiff-tools 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 11.10:
- libtiff4 3.9.5-1ubuntu1.2
- libtiff-tools 3.9.5-1ubuntu1.2
- Ubuntu 11.04:
- libtiff4 3.9.4-5ubuntu6.2
- libtiff-tools 3.9.4-5ubuntu6.2
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
- libtiff4 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.9
- libtiff-tools 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.9
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
- libtiff4 3.8.2-7ubuntu3.12
- libtiff-tools 3.8.2-7ubuntu3.12
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.