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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-9c84a7c963 critical: libtiff multiple fixes

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security notice regarding libjpeg in Fedora 40 addressing several vulnerabilities. Ensure your system's safety by updating promptly!
fix CVE-2024-7006 (rhbz#2302997) fix CVE-2023-52356 (rhbz#2260112) fix CVE-2023-6228 (rhbz#2251863)

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:

fix CVE-2024-7006 (rhbz#2302997) fix CVE-2023-52356 (rhbz#2260112) fix CVE-2023-6228 (rhbz#2251863)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora DoS libtiff

Change Log

* Wed Oct 23 2024 Michal Hlavinka - 4.6.0-5.1 - squash history to prevent upgrade-path issue - fix CVE-2024-7006 (rhbz#2302997) - fix CVE-2023-52356 (rhbz#2260112) - fix CVE-2023-6228 (rhbz#2251863) - revert previous change as per discussion in (#2292047) * Tue Jul 30 2024 Michal Hlavinka - 4.6.0-5 - do not carry over libtiff.so.5, it's .so.6 era already (#2292047) * Mon Jul 22 2024 Michal Hlavinka - 4.6.0-4 - use uname -m instead of -i for multilib check, as per PR#7 * Thu Jul 18 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 4.6.0-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_41_Mass_Rebuild

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2024-9c84a7c963 2024-10-25 02:08:03.181957 Name : libtiff Product : Fedora 40 Version : 4.6.0 Release : 5.fc40.1 URL : http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/ Summary : Library of functions for manipulating TIFF format image files Description : 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 Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-9c84a7c963' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: libtiff
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 4.6.0
Release: 5.fc40.1
URL: http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
Summary: Library of functions for manipulating TIFF format image files

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora DoS libtiff

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