USN-6428-1: LibTIFF vulnerability
Severity
Low
Vendor
VMware Tanzu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
- Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
- Canonical Ubuntu 22.04
Description
It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to read out of bounds when processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop utility. 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. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6428-1` 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+esm13 libtiffxx5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff5-dev - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff-doc - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-1916
Affected VMware Products and Versions
Severity is low unless otherwise noted.
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Isolation Segment
- 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.41
- 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.26
- 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.19
- 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.11+LTS-T
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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
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VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
- 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.47
- 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.29
- 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.19
- 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.11+LTS-T
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:
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Isolation Segment
- 2.11.41
- 2.13.26
- 3.0.19
- 4.0.11+LTS-T
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Operations Manager
- 2.7.25
- 2.8.16
- 2.9.12
- 2.10.3
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VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
- 2.11.47
- 2.13.29
- 3.0.19
- 4.0.11+LTS-T
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-1916
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6428-1
- https://cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6428-1
History
2023-12-04: Initial vulnerability report published.