Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2553-1
31st March, 2015
tiff vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary
LibTIFF 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
William Robinet discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain
malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application,
leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with
user privileges. (CVE-2014-8127, CVE-2014-8128, CVE-2014-8129,
CVE-2014-8130)
Paris Zoumpouloglou discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain
malformed BMP images. If a user or automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted BMP image, a remote attacker could crash the
application, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9330)
Michal Zalewski discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain
malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application,
leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with
user privileges. (CVE-2014-9655)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
libtiff5
4.0.3-10ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
libtiff5
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.2
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
libtiff4
3.9.5-2ubuntu1.7
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
-
libtiff4
3.9.2-2ubuntu0.15
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.