USN-2939-1 LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Low

Vendor

Ubuntu, LibTIFF

Versions Affected

• Ubuntu 14.04

Description

LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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.

Affected Products and Versions

_Severity is low unless otherwise noted.
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• All versions of Cloud Foundry rootfs prior to 1.48.0

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

• The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with rootfs version 1.48.0 and higher

Credit

None

References

• <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2939-1/&gt;
• <http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8665.html&gt;
• <http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8683.html&gt;
• <http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8781.html&gt;
• <http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8782.html&gt;
• <http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8783.html&gt;
• <http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8784.html&gt;