USN-6428-1: LibTIFF vulnerability

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04 December 2023

04 December 2023

CLOSED

LOW

CVE-2023-1916

Severity

low

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

It was discovered that LibTIFF could be made to read 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. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6428-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libtiff-opengl - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiffxx5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff5-dev - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 libtiff-doc - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm13 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-1916

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.41
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.26
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.19
    • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.11+LTS-T
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.25
    • 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.16
    • 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.12
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.3
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.47
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.29
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.19
    • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.11+LTS-T

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.41
    • 2.13.26
    • 3.0.19
    • 4.0.11+LTS-T
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.7.25
    • 2.8.16
    • 2.9.12
    • 2.10.3
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.47
    • 2.13.29
    • 3.0.19
    • 4.0.11+LTS-T

References

History

2023-12-04: Initial vulnerability report published.