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Ubuntu: USN-3212-1 (CVE-2016-6223): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3212-1 (CVE-2016-6223): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2017
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

The TIFFReadRawStrip1 and TIFFReadRawTile1 functions in tif_read.c in libtiff before 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via a negative index in a file-content buffer.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff-tools
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff5

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