PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-10-28
Candidate: CVE-2016-8331
PublicDate: 2016-10-28 20:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8331
 http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0190/
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3212-1
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3212-3
Description:
 An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the handling
 of TIFF images in LibTIFF version 4.0.6. A crafted TIFF document can lead
 to a type confusion vulnerability resulting in remote code execution. This
 vulnerability can be triggered via a TIFF file delivered to the application
 using LibTIFF's tag extension functionality.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> upstream removed the thumbnail utility in 4.0.7
 mdeslaur> solved by Red Hat's CVE-2016-3632 patch
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Tyler Bohan and Cory Duplantis
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [8.1 HIGH]

Patches_tiff:
upstream_tiff: released (4.0.6-3)
precise_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_tiff: released (3.9.5-2ubuntu1.10)
trusty_tiff: released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6)
trusty/esm_tiff: released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/ubuntu-core_tiff: DNE
wily_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_tiff: released (4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1)
esm-infra/xenial_tiff: released (4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1)
yakkety_tiff: released (4.0.6-2ubuntu0.1)
zesty_tiff: not-affected (4.0.7-1)
devel_tiff: not-affected (4.0.7-1)