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)
UK banking group TSB is calling on social networks and dating apps to better protect their users from fake profiles, following an alarming spike in romance fraud.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
