Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 640
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 640

Fedora Core 2: FEDORA-2005-597 Critical: libtiff Buffer Overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey January 7, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addresses integer overflow issues in libtiff for Fedora Core 2, which may cause buffer overflows in the tiffdump tool.
The updated libtiff package fixes an integer overflow which could lead to a buffer overflow in the tiffdump utility.

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.

The updated libtiff package fixes an integer overflow which could lead

to a buffer overflow in the tiffdump utility.

- fix an integer overflow in tiffdump (#143576)

9933180e63d0bdc76c2a5e5223ff87f9 SRPMS/libtiff-3.5.7-22.fc2.src.rpm

62dc26a061c8e7f758d6886bc05f70c7 x86_64/libtiff-3.5.7-22.fc2.x86_64.rpm

f70ed86c17eb88bb4589ed66ee006517 x86_64/libtiff-devel-3.5.7-22.fc2.x86_64.rpm

d4dd21f27505ba1fb27dc4c72f17f304 x86_64/debug/libtiff-debuginfo-3.5.7-22.fc2.x86_64.rpm

adb4f5629d8f56922d98577cc4c4a341 x86_64/libtiff-3.5.7-22.fc2.i386.rpm

adb4f5629d8f56922d98577cc4c4a341 i386/libtiff-3.5.7-22.fc2.i386.rpm

bff086a2e2c6ac6cb3a25a70be85ccc1 i386/libtiff-devel-3.5.7-22.fc2.i386.rpm

c90db80792a57c0d9884db2798ea8071 i386/debug/libtiff-debuginfo-3.5.7-22.fc2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

--fedora-announce-list mailing list

fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Name: libtiff
Version: 3.5.7
Release: 22.fc2
Summary: A library of functions for manipulating TIFF format image

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here