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Ubuntu 4.10 : tiff vulnerability (USN-46-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 20663

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

A buffer overflow was discovered in the TIFF library. A TIFF file includes a value indicating the number of 'directory entry' header fields contained in the file. If this value is -1, an invalid memory allocation was performed. A malicious image could be constructed which, when decoded, would have resulted in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process using the library.

Since this library is used in many applications like 'ghostscript' and the 'CUPS' printing system, this vulnerability may lead to remotely induced privilege escalation.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libtiff-tools, libtiff4 and / or libtiff4-dev packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 20663

File Name: ubuntu_USN-46-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff4, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff-tools

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1308

USN: 46-1