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USN-1498-1: tiff vulnerabilities

5 July 2012

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

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Releases

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)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.04

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