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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : tiff vulnerabilities (USN-1832-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 66540

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Synopsis

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

Description

Emmanuel Bouillon discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images when using the tiff2pdf tool. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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Solution

Update the affected libtiff4 and / or libtiff5 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1832-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 66540

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1832-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/22/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff4, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtiff5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1960, CVE-2013-1961

BID: 59607, 59609

USN: 1832-1