USN-6428-1: LibTIFF vulnerability

Severity

Low

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Description

It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to read out of bounds when processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop utility. 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. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6428-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libtiff-opengl – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiffxx5 – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff5-dev – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff5 – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff-tools – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff-doc – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-1916.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs4
  • All versions prior to 1.43.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 32.15.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

• cflinuxfs4
  • Upgrade all versions to 1.43.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 32.15.0 or greater

History

2023-11-09: Initial vulnerability report published.