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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : tiff vulnerability (USN-156-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20559

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Wouter Hanegraaff discovered that the TIFF library did not sufficiently validate the 'YCbCr subsampling' value in TIFF image headers. Decoding a malicious image with a zero value resulted in an arithmetic exception, which caused the program that uses the TIFF library to crash. This leads to a Denial of Service in server applications that use libtiff (like the CUPS printing system) and can cause data loss in, for example, the Evolution email client.

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Solution

Update the affected libtiff-tools, libtiff4 and / or libtiff4-dev packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20559

File Name: ubuntu_USN-156-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff4-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2005

Reference Information

USN: 156-1