USN-5841-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14973)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-02-02 16:34 – Updated: 2026-06-29 10:52 – Source website
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It was 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. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-14973, CVE-2019-17546, CVE-2020-35523, CVE-2020-35524, CVE-2022-3970)

It was discovered that LibTIFF was incorrectly acessing a data structure when processing data with the tiffcrop tool, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-48281)

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  "details": "It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed\nimages. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a\nspecially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application,\nleading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with\nuser privileges. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.\n(CVE-2019-14973, CVE-2019-17546, CVE-2020-35523, CVE-2020-35524,\nCVE-2022-3970)\n\nIt was discovered that LibTIFF was incorrectly acessing a data structure\nwhen processing data with the tiffcrop tool, which could lead to a heap\nbuffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a\ndenial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-48281)\n",
  "id": "USN-5841-1",
  "modified": "2026-06-29T10:52:59Z",
  "published": "2023-02-02T16:34:35Z",
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