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.

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

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Version 1.1 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
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