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Ubuntu: USN-3606-1 (CVE-2017-5563): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3606-1 (CVE-2017-5563): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/25/2018
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

LibTIFF version 4.0.7 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in tif_lzw.c resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted bmp image to tools/bmp2tiff.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff-tools
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff5

References

  • USN-3602-1
  • USN-3606-1
  • CVE-2017-5563

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