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Ubuntu: USN-5084-1 (CVE-2020-19143): LibTIFF vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5084-1 (CVE-2020-19143): LibTIFF vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/09/2021
Created
09/24/2021
Added
09/22/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Buffer Overflow in LibTiff v4.0.10 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the "TIFFVGetField" funtion in the component 'libtiff/tif_dir.c'.

Solution(s)

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

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