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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-3618): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-3618): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/12/2023
Created
08/16/2023
Added
08/16/2023
Modified
08/16/2023

Description

A flaw was found in libtiff. A specially crafted tiff file can lead to a segmentation fault due to a buffer overflow in the Fax3Encode function in libtiff/tif_fax3.c, resulting in a denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff-tools
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff6

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