{"id":59637,"date":"2024-09-12T20:09:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/181482\/USN-6997-2.txt"},"modified":"2024-09-12T20:09:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:09:43","slug":"ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6997-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6997-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6997-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================<br \/>Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6997-2<br \/>September 11, 2024<\/p>\n<p>tiff vulnerability<br \/>==========================================================================<\/p>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ubuntu 14.04 LTS<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>LibTIFF could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.<\/p>\n<p>Software Description:<br \/>&#8211; tiff: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p>USN-6997-1 fixed a vulnerability in LibTIFF. This update<br \/>provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.<\/p>\n<p>Original advisory details:<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled memory. An attacker<br \/>could possibly use this issue to cause the application to crash, resulting<br \/>in a denial of service.<\/p>\n<p>Update instructions:<\/p>\n<p>The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following<br \/>package versions:<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 14.04 LTS<br \/>libtiff-opengl 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm14<br \/>Available with Ubuntu Pro<br \/>libtiff-tools 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm14<br \/>Available with Ubuntu Pro<br \/>libtiff5 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm14<br \/>Available with Ubuntu Pro<br \/>libtiffxx5 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm14<br \/>Available with Ubuntu Pro<\/p>\n<p>In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-6997-2<br \/>https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-6997-1<br \/>CVE-2024-7006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6997-2September 11, 2024 tiff vulnerability========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: &#8211; Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: LibTIFF could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input. Software Description:&#8211; tiff: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library Details: USN-6997-1 fixed a vulnerability in LibTIFF. This updateprovides the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}