USN-2553-1

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USN-2553-1

Summary: tiff vulnerabilities

Details: William Robinet discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2014-8127, CVE-2014-8128, CVE-2014-8129, CVE-2014-8130) Paris Zoumpouloglou discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed BMP images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted BMP image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9330) Michal Zalewski discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2014-9655)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2553-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8127, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8128, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8129, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8130, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9330, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9655