USN-4158-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

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-2019-14973, CVE-2019-17546.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.136.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 12.5.0

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 0.136.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 12.5.0 or greater

References

• USN Notice
• CVE-2019-14973
• CVE-2019-17546

History

2021-03-09: Initial vulnerability report published.