Ubuntu: USN-3212-1 (CVE-2016-6223): LibTIFF vulnerabilities
6
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
01/23/2017
07/25/2018
02/28/2017
09/12/2020
Description
The TIFFReadRawStrip1 and TIFFReadRawTile1 functions in tif_read.c in libtiff before 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via a negative index in a file-content buffer.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff-tools
- ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff5
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