Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Description

Chintan Shah discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled memory in certain conditions. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted image file and potentially use this issue to allow for information disclosure or to cause the application to crash. (CVE-2022-3570) It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled memory in certain conditions. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff file and potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-3598) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5705-1` 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+esm6 libtiffxx5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm6 libtiff5-dev - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm6 libtiff5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm6 libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm6 libtiff-doc - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm6 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-3570, CVE-2022-3598

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
  • All versions prior to 2.0.0
• 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

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:

• Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
  • 2.0.0
• Operations Manager
  • 2.7.25
  • 2.8.16
  • 2.9.12
  • 2.10.3

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3570
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3598
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5705-1

History

2022-12-08: Initial vulnerability report published.