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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-3419 Moderate libtiff Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
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An update for libtiff is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running applications linked against libtiff must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Summary

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files.
Security Fix(es):
* libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in the cpSeparateBufToContigBuf function resulting in a denial of service or possibly code execution (CVE-2018-12900)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat buffer overflow moderate impact libtiff

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12900 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: libtiff-4.0.9-15.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: libtiff-4.0.9-15.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-15.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-15.el8.aarch64.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libtiff-4.0.9-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libtiff-4.0.9-15.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-15.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-15.el8.s390x.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libtiff-4.0.9-15.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-4.0.9-15.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-15.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-debugsource-4.0.9-15.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-15.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-devel-4.0.9-15.el8.x86_64.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.i686.rpm libtiff-tools-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
aarch64: libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.9-15.el8.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3419-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3419
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for libtiff is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat buffer overflow moderate impact libtiff

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1595575 - CVE-2018-12900 libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in the cpSeparateBufToContigBuf function resulting in a denial of service or possibly code execution

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