USN-6428-1: LibTIFF vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity

Low

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

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 Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs4
  • All versions prior to 1.43.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 32.15.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

• cflinuxfs4
  • Upgrade all versions to 1.43.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 32.15.0 or greater

References

• USN Notice
• CVE-2023-1916

History

2023-11-09: Initial vulnerability report published.