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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : LibTIFF vulnerabilities (USN-6290-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179893

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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 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6290-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to write out of bounds when processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop utility. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-48281)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-2731)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain image files with the tiffcp utility. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcp to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-2908)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain file paths. If a user were tricked into specifying certain output paths, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
 This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-3316)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to write out of bounds when processing certain malformed image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-3618)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to write out of bounds when processing certain malformed image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-25433, CVE-2023-26966)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF did not properly managed memory when processing certain malformed image files with the tiffcrop utility. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcrop to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-26965)

 It was discovered that LibTIFF contained an arithmetic overflow. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
 (CVE-2023-38288, CVE-2023-38289)

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-6290-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179893

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6290-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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-2023-3618

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, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff6, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff5-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiffxx5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff-opengl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiffxx6, 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: 8/15/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48281, CVE-2023-25433, CVE-2023-26965, CVE-2023-26966, CVE-2023-2731, CVE-2023-2908, CVE-2023-3316, CVE-2023-3618, CVE-2023-38288, CVE-2023-38289

USN: 6290-1