USN-5923-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

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 tool. 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. (CVE-2023-0795, CVE-2023-0796, CVE-2023-0797, CVE-2023-0798, CVE-2023-0799) It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to write out of bounds when processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop tool. 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, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0800, CVE-2023-0801, CVE-2023-0802, CVE-2023-0803, CVE-2023-0804) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5923-1` 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+esm10 libtiffxx5 – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm10 libtiff5-dev – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm10 libtiff5 – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm10 libtiff-tools – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm10 libtiff-doc – 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm10 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-0795, CVE-2023-0796, CVE-2023-0797, CVE-2023-0798, CVE-2023-0799, CVE-2023-0800, CVE-2023-0801, CVE-2023-0802, CVE-2023-0803, CVE-2023-0804.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.356.0
• cflinuxfs4
  • All versions prior to 0.72.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 27.0.0

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 0.356.0 or greater
• cflinuxfs4
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.72.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 27.0.0 or greater

History

2023-03-23: Initial vulnerability report published.