Fedora 21: libtiff Security Update
Summary
The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely
used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the
.tif extension and they are often quite large.
The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF
format image files.
Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2014-9655, CVE-2015-1547
Change Log
* Tue May 19 2015 Petr Hracek
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1190703 - CVE-2014-9655 libtiff: use of uninitialized memory in putcontig8bitYCbCr21tile and NeXTDecode https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190703 [ 2 ] Bug #1190709 - CVE-2015-1547 libtiff: use of uninitialized memory in NeXTDecode https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190709
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libtiff' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .