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USN-4755-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was 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.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2020-35524, CVE-2020-35523.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • cflinuxfs3
    • All versions prior to 0.225.0
  • CF Deployment
    • All versions prior to 16.5.0

Mitigation

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

  • cflinuxfs3
    • Upgrade All versions to 0.225.0 or greater
  • CF Deployment
    • Upgrade All versions to 16.5.0 or greater

History

2021-03-02: Initial vulnerability report published.

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