USN-6229-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

24149

17 October 2023

17 October 2023

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2023-25433,CVE-2023-26965,CVE-2023-26966,CVE-2023-3316

Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly handling variables used to perform memory management operations when processing an image through tiffcrop, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-25433, CVE-2023-26965) It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly processing numerical values when dealing with little-endian input data, which could lead to the execution of an invalid operation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (CVE-2023-26966) It was discovered that LibTIFF was not properly performing bounds checks when closing a previously opened TIFF file, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-3316) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6229-1` 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+esm11 libtiff-tools - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm11 libtiff5-dev - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm11 libtiff5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm11 libtiffxx5 - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm11 libtiff-doc - 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm11 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-25433, CVE-2023-26965, CVE-2023-26966, CVE-2023-3316

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.38
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.23
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.16
    • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.8+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 2.11.44
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.26
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.16
    • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.8+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
    • 2.11.38
    • 2.13.23
    • 3.0.16
    • 4.0.8+LTS-T
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.7.25
    • 2.8.16
    • 2.9.12
    • 2.10.3
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.44
    • 2.13.26
    • 3.0.16
    • 4.0.8+LTS-T

References

History

2023-10-17: Initial vulnerability report published.