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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-e812bddc51 critical: libtiff memory issue

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Calendar Grey January 14, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update fixes severe libtiff memory issue affecting Fedora 39 image library, ensuring improved application stability.
Update to 1.4.16

Summary

This package contains a collection of image format handlers for the Tk

photo image type, and a new image type, pixmaps.

Update Information:

Update to 1.4.16. Fixes CVE-2023-6277 (in bundled libtiff).

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security advisory update Fedora memory issue libtiff tkimg

Change Log

* Fri Jan 5 2024 Tom Callaway - 1.4.16-1 - update to 1.4.16 - apply upstream (libtiff) fix for CVE-2023-6277 - update license tag * Fri Dec 8 2023 Florian Weimer - 1.4.14-5 - Backport part of an upstream patch to fix C compatibility issues

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2251311 - CVE-2023-6277 libtiff: Out-of-memory in TIFFOpen via a craft file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251311

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-e812bddc51' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: tkimg
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 1.4.16
Release: 1.fc39
URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkimg/
Summary: Image support library for Tk

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