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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2008:0847-01 Critical: libtiff Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey August 28, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat enhances libpng to mitigate significant security vulnerabilities and resolve a defect, bolstering resilience against malicious PNG files.
Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's ...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2327)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of the Apple Product Security team for reporting this issue.
Additionally, these updated packages fix the following bug:
* the libtiff packages included manual pages for the sgi2tiff and tiffsv commands, which are not included in these packages. These extraneous manual pages were removed.
All libtiff users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical arbitrary code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux memory issue libtiff LZW decoder

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2327 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
x86_64: libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
x86_64: libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
ia64: libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ia64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ia64.rpm libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ia64.rpm
ppc: libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc.rpm libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc64.rpm libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc.rpm libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.ppc64.rpm
s390x:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0847-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0847.html
Issue date: 2008-08-28

Topic

Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical arbitrary code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux memory issue libtiff LZW decoder

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

458674 - CVE-2008-2327 libtiff: use of uninitialized memory in LZW decoder

460120 - [RHEL5] libtiff has unnecessary man pages.

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