USN-3212-1 and USN-3212-2 fixed a vulnerabilitiy in LibTIFF. This update provides a subset of corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

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.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF     version 4.0.6. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a type confusion vulnerability resulting in remote code     execution. This vulnerability can be triggered via a TIFF file delivered to the application using     LibTIFF's tag extension functionality. (CVE-2016-8331)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Version 4.0.2-6+deb7u7 introduced changes that resulted in libtiff being unable to write out tiff files when the compression scheme in use relies on codec-specific TIFF tags embedded in the image.

This problem manifested itself with errors like those: $ tiffcp -r 16
-c jpeg sample.tif out.tif _TIFFVGetField: out.tif: Invalid tag 'Predictor' (not supported by codec). _TIFFVGetField: out.tif: Invalid tag 'BadFaxLines' (not supported by codec). tiffcp:
tif_dirwrite.c:687: TIFFWriteDirectorySec: Assertion `0' failed.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+deb7u10.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3212-1 advisory.

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-16 (libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libTIFF. Please review       the CVE identifier and bug reports referenced for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted       image file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the       privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update for tiff fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-18013: There was a NULL pointer Dereference in     the tif_print.c TIFFPrintDirectory function, as     demonstrated by a tiffinfo crash. (bsc#1074317)

  - CVE-2018-10963: The TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function in     tif_dirwrite.c allowed remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (assertion failure and application     crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability     than CVE-2017-13726. (bsc#1092949)

  - CVE-2018-7456: Prevent a NULL pointer dereference in the     function TIFFPrintDirectory when using the tiffinfo tool     to print crafted TIFF information, a different     vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013 (bsc#1082825)

  - CVE-2017-11613: Prevent denial of service in the     TIFFOpen function. During the TIFFOpen process,     td_imagelength is not checked. The value of     td_imagelength can be directly controlled by an input     file. In the ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip function, the
    _TIFFCheckMalloc function is called based on     td_imagelength. If the value of td_imagelength is set     close to the amount of system memory, it will hang the     system or trigger the OOM killer (bsc#1082332)

  - CVE-2018-8905: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow in the     function LZWDecodeCompat via a crafted TIFF file     (bsc#1086408)

  - CVE-2016-8331: Prevent remote code execution because of     incorrect handling of TIFF images. A crafted TIFF     document could have lead to a type confusion     vulnerability resulting in remote code execution. This     vulnerability could have been be triggered via a TIFF     file delivered to the application using LibTIFF's tag     extension functionality (bsc#1007276)

  - CVE-2016-3632: The _TIFFVGetField function allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds write) or execute arbitrary code via a     crafted TIFF image (bsc#974621)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for tiff fixes the following issues :

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-18013: There was a NULL pointer Dereference in     the tif_print.c TIFFPrintDirectory function, as     demonstrated by a tiffinfo crash. (bsc#1074317)

  - CVE-2018-10963: The TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function in     tif_dirwrite.c allowed remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (assertion failure and application     crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability     than CVE-2017-13726. (bsc#1092949)

  - CVE-2018-7456: Prevent a NULL pointer dereference in the     function TIFFPrintDirectory when using the tiffinfo tool     to print crafted TIFF information, a different     vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013 (bsc#1082825)

  - CVE-2017-11613: Prevent denial of service in the     TIFFOpen function. During the TIFFOpen process,     td_imagelength is not checked. The value of     td_imagelength can be directly controlled by an input     file. In the ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip function, the
    _TIFFCheckMalloc function is called based on     td_imagelength. If the value of td_imagelength is set     close to the amount of system memory, it will hang the     system or trigger the OOM killer (bsc#1082332)

  - CVE-2018-8905: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow in the     function LZWDecodeCompat via a crafted TIFF file     (bsc#1086408)

  - CVE-2016-8331: Prevent remote code execution because of     incorrect handling of TIFF images. A crafted TIFF     document could have lead to a type confusion     vulnerability resulting in remote code execution. This     vulnerability could have been be triggered via a TIFF     file delivered to the application using LibTIFF's tag     extension functionality (bsc#1007276)

  - CVE-2016-3632: The _TIFFVGetField function allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds write) or execute arbitrary code via a     crafted TIFF image (bsc#974621)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

This update for tiff fixes the following security issues :

  - CVE-2017-5225: Prevent heap buffer overflow in the     tools/tiffcp that could have caused DoS or code     execution via a crafted BitsPerSample value     (bsc#1019611)

  - CVE-2018-7456: Prevent a NULL pointer dereference in the     function TIFFPrintDirectory when using the tiffinfo tool     to print crafted TIFF information, a different     vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013 (bsc#1082825)

  - CVE-2017-11613: Prevent denial of service in the     TIFFOpen function. During the TIFFOpen process,     td_imagelength is not checked. The value of     td_imagelength can be directly controlled by an input     file. In the ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip function, the
    _TIFFCheckMalloc function is called based on     td_imagelength. If the value of td_imagelength is set     close to the amount of system memory, it will hang the     system or trigger the OOM killer (bsc#1082332)

  - CVE-2016-10266: Prevent remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application     crash) via a crafted TIFF image, related to     libtiff/tif_read.c:351:22 (bsc#1031263)

  - CVE-2018-8905: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow in the     function LZWDecodeCompat via a crafted TIFF file     (bsc#1086408)

  - CVE-2016-9540: Prevent out-of-bounds write on tiled     images with odd tile width versus image width     (bsc#1011839).

  - CVE-2016-9535: tif_predict.h and tif_predict.c had     assertions that could have lead to assertion failures in     debug mode, or buffer overflows in release mode, when     dealing with unusual tile size like YCbCr with     subsampling (bsc#1011846).

  - CVE-2016-9535: tif_predict.h and tif_predict.c had     assertions that could have lead to assertion failures in     debug mode, or buffer overflows in release mode, when     dealing with unusual tile size like YCbCr with     subsampling (bsc#1011846).

  - Removed assert in readSeparateTilesIntoBuffer() function     (bsc#1017689).

  - CVE-2016-10095: Prevent stack-based buffer overflow in     the _TIFFVGetField function that allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a     crafted TIFF file (bsc#1017690).

  - CVE-2016-8331: Prevent remote code execution because of     incorrect handling of TIFF images. A crafted TIFF     document could have lead to a type confusion     vulnerability resulting in remote code execution. This     vulnerability could have been be triggered via a TIFF     file delivered to the application using LibTIFF's tag     extension functionality (bsc#1007276).

  - CVE-2016-3632: The _TIFFVGetField function allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds write) or execute arbitrary code via a     crafted TIFF image (bsc#974621).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
101833	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : tiff vulnerabilities (USN-3212-3)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	7/20/2017	1/12/2023	critical
219747	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-8331	Nessus	Misc.	3/4/2025	8/25/2025	high
94474	Debian DLA-693-2 : tiff regression update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	11/3/2016	1/11/2021	critical
97434	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : LibTIFF vulnerabilities (USN-3212-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2/28/2017	8/27/2024	critical
96373	GLSA-201701-16 : libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	1/10/2017	1/11/2021	critical
110763	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2018:1826-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/28/2018	9/12/2024	high
110802	openSUSE Security Update : tiff (openSUSE-2018-677)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/29/2018	9/10/2024	high
110803	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2018:1835-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/29/2018	9/10/2024	critical

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