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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
108513	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : LibTIFF vulnerabilities (USN-3602-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/21/2018	10/23/2023	high
196532	RHEL 7 : libtiff (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/11/2024	critical
196585	RHEL 6 : libtiff (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/11/2024	critical
196612	RHEL 5 : libtiff (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/11/2024	critical

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