USN-1498-1: tiff vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• 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 versions:

Ubuntu 8.04

• libtiff4 - 3.8.2-7ubuntu3.12
• libtiff-tools - 3.8.2-7ubuntu3.12

Ubuntu 12.04

• 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

• libtiff4 - 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.9
• libtiff-tools - 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.9

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

References

• CVE-2012-2088
• CVE-2012-2113