1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1511-1

USN-1511-1: tiff vulnerability

Publication date

19 July 2012

Overview

tiff2pdf could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

Packages

  • tiff - Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library

Details

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala 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.

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala 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.

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
8.04 hardy libtiff-tools –  3.8.2-7ubuntu3.13
12.04 precise libtiff-tools –  3.9.5-2ubuntu1.2
11.10 oneiric libtiff-tools –  3.9.5-1ubuntu1.3
11.04 natty libtiff-tools –  3.9.4-5ubuntu6.3
10.04 lucid libtiff-tools –  3.9.2-2ubuntu0.10

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