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USN-5421-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affects Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-35522) Chintan Shah discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled memory when handling certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0561, CVE-2022-0562, CVE-2022-0891) It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affects Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 21.10. (CVE-2022-0865) Update Instructions: Run `sudo ua fix USN-5421-1` 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+esm1 libtiffxx5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm1 libtiff5-dev - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm1 libtiff5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm1 libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm1 libtiff-doc - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm1 Available with UA Infra or UA Desktop: https://ubuntu.com/advantage

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2020-35522, CVE-2022-0561, CVE-2022-0562, CVE-2022-0865, CVE-2022-0891

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
  • All versions prior to 2.0.0

• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.45
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.25
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.14
  • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.8

• Operations Manager
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.25
  • 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.16
  • 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.12
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.3

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.50
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.32
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.20
  • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.13

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:

• Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
  • 2.0.0

• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.45
  • 2.10.25
  • 2.11.14
  • 2.12.8

• Operations Manager
  • 2.7.25
  • 2.8.16
  • 2.9.12
  • 2.10.3

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.50
  • 2.10.32
  • 2.11.20
  • 2.12.13

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-35522
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0561
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0562
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0865
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0891
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5421-1
• https://cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-5421-1

History

2022-07-25: Initial vulnerability report published.