N/A - USN-3212-2

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

USN-3212-1 caused a regression in LibTIFF.

Software Description: - tiff: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library

Details:

USN-3212-1 fixed vulnerabilities in LibTIFF. Unfortunately, some of the security patches were misapplied, which caused a regression when processing certain images. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

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.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.10:
libtiff-tools 4.0.6-2ubuntu0.2
libtiff5 4.0.6-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libtiff-tools 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.2
libtiff5 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libtiff-tools 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.7
libtiff5 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.7

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3212-2
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3212-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1670036

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.6-2ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.6-1ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tiff/4.0.3-7ubuntu0.7