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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : LibTIFF vulnerabilities (USN-5714-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167166

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5714-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain memory operations when using tiffcrop. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-2519, CVE-2022-2520, CVE-2022-2521, CVE-2022-2953)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations when using tiffcrop. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use this issue to allow for information disclosure or to cause the application to crash. This issue only affected to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2867, CVE-2022-2868, CVE-2022-2869)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations when using tiffsplit. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use this issue to allow for information disclosure or to cause the application to crash. This issue only affected to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-34526)

 Chintan Shah discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled memory in certain conditions when using tiffcrop.
 An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted image file and potentially use this issue to allow for information disclosure or to cause the application to crash. This issue only affected to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.
 (CVE-2022-3570)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled memory in certain conditions when using tiffcrop. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff file and potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3598)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF did not properly perform bounds checking in

 certain operations when using tiffcrop. An attacker could trick a user into

 processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use this issue

 to allow for information disclosure or to cause the application to crash. (CVE-2022-3599)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations when using tiffcrop. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use this issue to allow for information disclosure or to cause the application to crash. This issue only affected to Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3597, CVE-2022-3626, CVE-2022-3627)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5714-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167166

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5714-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/9/2022

Updated: 8/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3627

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff5-alt-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff-tools, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff5-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiffxx5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff-opengl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff5

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2519, CVE-2022-2520, CVE-2022-2521, CVE-2022-2867, CVE-2022-2868, CVE-2022-2869, CVE-2022-2953, CVE-2022-34526, CVE-2022-3570, CVE-2022-3597, CVE-2022-3598, CVE-2022-3599, CVE-2022-3626, CVE-2022-3627

USN: 5714-1