Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

USN-6644-1 fixed vulnerabilities in LibTIFF. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-52356) It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain image files with the tiffcp utility. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause tiffcp to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-6228) It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the application to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-6277) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6644-2` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libtiff-opengl - 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8 libtiffxx5 - 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8 libtiff5-dev - 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8 libtiff-dev - 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8 libtiff5 - 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8 libtiff-tools - 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8 libtiff-doc - 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.8 No subscription required.

Fixed and Unaffected VMware Products and Versions

• Cflinixfs4
• 1.78.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
• 39.3.0 or greater
• Isolation Segment
• 4.0.19+LTS-T or greater
• 5.0.9 or greater
• 6.0.x unaffected
• VMware Tanzu Applications Service for VMs
• 4.0.19+LTS-T or greater
• 5.0.9 or greater
• 6.0.x unaffected

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6644-2

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6644-2

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6644-2

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24838

History

2024-02-27: Initial vulnerability report published.